sweet – English noun declension

English noun forms of sweet

Noun: sweet
Singularsweet
Pluralsweets

Sample Sentences

  • Can we see the sweet menu, please?
  • VVherefore frovvnes my ſvveet? / Haue I too long bene abſent from theſe lips, / This cheeke, theſe eyes? [1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act I, signature B2, verso:]
  • "You think that I'll take anything."
  • "I know you will, sweet..."
  • "There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be."
  • "Well, there is now," she said sweetly. [1936 Aug., Ernest Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Cosmopolitan]
  • Good evening, my sweet.
  • a wilderness of sweets [1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar. [1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-us
4. Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus
5. Proto-Germanic *swōtuz
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yos
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
8. Proto-Germanic *-jaz
9. Proto-West Germanic *-ī
10. Proto-West Germanic *swōtī
11. Old English swēte
12. Middle English swete
13. English sweet
14. From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us.
15. Cognates
16. Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Faroese søtur (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk søt (“sweet; cute”), Swedish söt (“sweet; cute”); also Latin suāvis (“delicious, pleasant, sweet”), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet; pleasant; glad, pleased”), Albanian shije (“flavour, taste”), Lithuanian sūdyti (“to add salt; to brine, souse”), Armenian քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”), Tocharian A swār (“sweet”), Tocharian B swāre (“sweet, tender”), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú, “delicious, palatable, savoury, sweet, tasty; dainty, delicate”). Doublet of suave. See: Middle English Nouns 'soot', Old English Nouns 'swēte', Dutch Nouns 'zoet', Danish Nouns 'sød', Faroese Nouns 'søtur', Icelandic Nouns 'sætur', Latin Nouns 'suāvis'.

Verbs referencing "sweet"

Zulu Nouns uswidi, Polish Nouns sweet focia.