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sweet

/sˈwit/SWEET
/sˈwit/SWEET

Meaningpleasant

Common meaning: tasting of sugar

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SWAD‘please, to be sweet, esp’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 452, p. 746 · scan
  2. Old Englishswetesource
  3. Middle Englishswetesource
  4. Englishsweet‘tasting of sugar’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Old English swete ‘pleasant’.

Roots

  • swete Old English “pleasant”

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