Word Origin Summary

*swerbaną is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐌰𐌽

  Gothic · derived from

• swervan

  Old Saxon · inherited from

• 𐌰𐍆𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌱𐌰𐌽

  Gothic · derived from

• swerve

  English · inherited from

• sverfa

  Icelandic · derived from

• swerven

  Middle English · inherited from

• sweorfan

  English · inherited from

• zwerven

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root