English
swoon
Swoon comes from Middle English swoune.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500swoune
- Englishearliest quotation 1593swoon
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500swoune
- Englishearliest quotation 1593swoon
Earliest quotation: 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines: “She dandled it, and dancet it up and doune,…”
Every English word from Middle English swoune
Another origin of swoon
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sweh₂gʰ-‘to sound’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*swōganą‘to make sound by breathing, sigh, blow noisily’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*swōgan‘to make a murmuring sound’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150swōganas ġeswōgen‘insensible, senseless, dead’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500swounen
- Englishtodayswoon
Today it means
noun A faint.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English swoune / swoon