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swin

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
swin, swinn, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§25; §126;
Sound, melody
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  • Swin, sang melodia (Wright gives swinsang melodio ; perhaps swinsung

    should be read, but see the following gloss),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 28.
  • Swinne ł sangge

    melodia,

      Hpt. Gl. 467, 41.
  • Swinn, dreám

    melodiam,

      515, 42.
[From the same root as Latin sonus?]
v. ge-swin, and following words; and cf. hlyn[n], hlynsian for similar formation.
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v.  ge-swin.
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  • swin, n.