Swart Definition

swôrt

adjective

swartest

Webster's New World

Swarthy.

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(UK dialectal) Black.

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Synonyms:

noun

(UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker.

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Obsolete spelling of sward.

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verb

To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan.

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Other Word Forms of Swart

Base Form:

swart

Superlative:

swartest

From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart (“swarthy, black, dark; gloomy; evil, infamous"), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black, dark-coloured"), from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black"). Cognate with Scots swart (“black"), West Frisian swart (“black"), Dutch zwart (“black, dark"), Low German swart (“black"), German schwarz (“black"), Danish sort (“black"), Swedish svart (“black"), Icelandic svartur (“black"), Latin sordes (“dirt, filth"). Compare sordid, surd.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English swarten, from Old English sweartian (“to become black; make black"), from Proto-Germanic *swartōnÄ… (“to blacken, make black"), from Proto-Indo-European *swordos (“black, dirty").

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Middle English swarte from Old English sweart

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Variant of sward.

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