sweem

From Middle English swemen, from Old English *swǣman, from Proto-West Germanic *swaimijan, from Proto-Germanic *swaimijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₁- (“to move, sway”). Cognate with Scots sweem, soom (“to spin at high speed; float”), Icelandic sveima (“to float, hover; wander, roam”).

sweem (third-person singular simple present sweems, present participle sweeming, simple past and past participle sweemed)

1. (UK dialectal) To swoon, faint; be giddy.

sweem (plural sweems)

1. (UK dialectal) A swoon, fainting; a state of giddiness or faintness.

• sweemy
• sweemish

• sway
• sweam
• sweamish
• swim
• zoom

• Weems, emews

• swääm (Amrum)
• swumme (Heligoland)
• swume (Mooring)
• swumi (Sylt)
• swome (Wiedingharde)

From Old Frisian swimma, from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”).

sweem

1. (Föhr) to swim