- swing, sway")
swain from Old
Norse sveinn "boy, servant, attendant". sway
sveigja (="to bend, swing, give way") tag
Probably from a
Scandinavian source,...
- Norse: Sveigðir, Latin:
Swegthir The name was
originally Sveig-þér, from
sveigja, PGmc *swaiʒjanan,
which means "to bend, to bow" and PGmc *þe(ʒ)waz which...