English

fearsweat

fear + sweat

A compound of fear + sweat

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to go through’

Proto-Germanic *fērō ‘danger’

Old English fǣr ‘calamity’

Middle English feer

English fear

Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- ‘to sweat’

Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- ‘to sweat’

Proto-Germanic *swait-

Old English swāt

Middle English swete ‘blood’

English sweat

Today it means

noun Sweat produced from fear.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fearsweat