For-sweltan

古英語辞典によると:

for-sweltan

Add: (1) of persons, to die, perish. [He shal þe makie to forswelten, Jul. 19, 7.] (2) of a (visible) thing, to die away, fade away, disappear :-- Forswealt disparuit (omnis praestigiarum scaena ... ut fumus evanescens disparuit, Ald. 57, 13), Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 50: 26, 66. for-sweltan