Swin[n]

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - swin[n]

According to the Old English Dictionary:

, es;

swin[n]
m. Sound, melody :-- Swin, sang melodia (Wright gives swinsang melodio ; perhaps swinsung should be read, but see the following gloss), Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 28. Swinne l sangge melodia, Hpt. Gl. 467, 41. Swinn, dreám melodiam, 515, 42. [From the same root as Latin sonus?] and following words; and cf. hlyn[n], hlynsian for similar formation. swinn

Related words: ge-swin,

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