swete

From Old English swēte, swōt, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus.

• suete, sweete, swote, swoote, swoot, sote, soot

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweːt(ə)/, /ˈswoːt(ə)/, /ˈsoːt(ə)/

swete

1. sweet, pleasant-tasting
2. sweet in smell

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 3690-3691:

     But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.

     Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.

3. pleasant, likeable
4. loved, dear, precious

• hony-swete

• English: sweet
• Scots: sweet, sweit, swet

• “swẹ̄t(e (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-09.

swete (plural swetes)

1. sweetness in taste or smell
2. pleasantness, euphoria, bliss

• “swẹ̄te (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-09.

From Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-. The vocalism was sometimes influenced by swǣtan.

• swette, swhete, squete, swæt, swate, swote, swot

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɛːt/, /ˈswɔːt/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /ˈswɑːt/

swete (plural swetes)

1. blood
2. sweat, perspiration

• English: sweat; swot
  • → Esperanto: ŝvito
• Scots: sweet, swate, swait, swete, sweit

• sƿēte

From Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus. Cognate with Old Frisian swēte, Old Saxon swōti, Old Dutch suoti, Old High German suozi, Old Norse sœtr, Latin suavis, Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweːte/

swēte

1. sweet

• swētlīċe
• swētnes

• Middle English: swete, soote; swoote, sweete
  • Scots: swet, sweit, sweet
  • English: sweet