swind – Middle English verb conjugation

Middle English verb forms of swind

Infinitive

Participles

Presentswinding
Pastswund; swunden; swinded

Indicative

Present

3rd sing.swinds

Past

1st sing.swand; swinded
3rd sing.swand; swinded

Subjunctive

Present

Past

Imperative

Verbs conjugated like swind

swind,

Etymology

From Old English swindan (“to waste away, languish”), from Proto-West Germanic *swindan. Cognate with Danish svinde (“to dwindle, vanish”), Dutch zwinden (“to disappear, vanish”), German schwinden (“to decrease, shrink, vanish”), Low German swinnen (“to decrease, shrink, vanish”), Norwegian svinne (“to disappear, vanish”), Swedish svinna (“to disappear, vanish”). See also swindle. See: Old English 'swindan', Danish 'svinde', Dutch 'zwinden', German, old spelling 'schwinden', Low Saxon 'swinnen', Swedish 'svinna'.

Sample Sentences

  • c. 1175, Old English Homilies (Our swink and our tilth is oft wont to disappear.)
  • c. 1390, "Heil be þow Marie Moodur" (Hail, lender and lover of largeness / The sweet and sweetest that never may die.)
  • c. 1400, Saint Erkenwald (But suddenly his sweet cheer wasted away and failed.)

Cognates

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