See swelt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for swelt meaning in English (4.2kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "swelten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English swelten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "sweltan"
},
"expansion": "Old English sweltan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*sweltan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sweltan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*sweltaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sweltaną",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "zwelten",
"3": "",
"4": "to die"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zwelten (“to die”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "swelts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swelting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swelted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelt",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelt",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"past2": "swelt",
"past_ptc2": "swelt"
},
"expansion": "swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past and past participle swelted or swelt)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To die."
],
"id": "en-swelt-en-verb-jx6TKsZL",
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete outside dialects) To die."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571",
"text": "Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Songs in the Night",
"text": "Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter"
],
"id": "en-swelt-en-verb-bi2xyRMh",
"links": [
[
"swelter",
"swelter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete outside dialects) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/swɛlt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swelt.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "swelt"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "swelt",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 5 92",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 4 93",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 14 54",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Death",
"orig": "en:Death",
"parents": [
"Body",
"Life",
"Human",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "swell"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past of swell"
],
"id": "en-swelt-en-verb-bdzqw~W2",
"links": [
[
"swell",
"swell#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) simple past of swell"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"obsolete",
"past"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/swɛlt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swelt.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "swelt"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verb forms",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlt/1 syllable",
"en:Death"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "swelten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English swelten",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "sweltan"
},
"expansion": "Old English sweltan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*sweltan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *sweltan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*sweltaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *sweltaną",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "zwelten",
"3": "",
"4": "to die"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zwelten (“to die”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "swelts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "swelting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swelted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelt",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "swelt",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"past2": "swelt",
"past_ptc2": "swelt"
},
"expansion": "swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past and past participle swelted or swelt)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To die."
],
"links": [
[
"die",
"die"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete outside dialects) To die."
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571",
"text": "Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Songs in the Night",
"text": "Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter"
],
"links": [
[
"swelter",
"swelter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete outside dialects) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter"
],
"tags": [
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/swɛlt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swelt.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "swelt"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verb forms",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlt/1 syllable",
"en:Death"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "swelt",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "swell"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past of swell"
],
"links": [
[
"swell",
"swell#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) simple past of swell"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"obsolete",
"past"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/swɛlt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swelt.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swelt.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "swelt"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.