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单词 swon
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swonn.

Forms: Old English swan, Middle English suan, Middle English swan, swon.
Etymology: Old English swán swineherd = Middle Low German swên , swein herd, especially swineherd, young man, Low German sween , swên , Old High German swein (German dialect schwein ), Old Norse sveinn boy, servant, whence swain n. (Swedish sven, Danish svend boy, lad) < Germanic *swainaz, referred by some to root swa-, swe- oneself, and taken to mean originally ‘a person belonging to oneself, adherent, attendant’.
Obsolete.
A swineherd.
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a700 Epinal Gloss. 961 in Old Eng. Texts 92 Sabulcus..suan.
900–30 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 755 (Parker MS.) He þær wunade oþ þæt hiene an swan ofstang æt Pryfetes flodan.
1395 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 614 Item j suan per xxiiij dies minanti plaustra .iiij.s.
1421 Coventry Leet Bk. 27 We commaund..that the Swan of this Cite drive the Swyne of this Cite to wastes and marreys a-bout this cite.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1086 Thi swon may se their noumber & up saue Thoppressed pigge.
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