English
Etymology
From Middle Low German Swêde, from a Germanic word akin to Old Norse Svíþjóð, Old English Swēoþēod (“Sweden”, literally “Swede nation”), itself from Swēo (“Swede”), from Proto-Germanic *swihô (“Swede”). Cognate with Dutch Zweed, German Schwede. Doublet of suede.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swiːd/
- Rhymes: -iːd
Noun
Swede (plural Swedes)
- A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.
- (historical) A member of an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden
Derived terms
Translations
person from Sweden or of Swedish descent
- Afrikaans: Sweed
- Albanian: suedez (sq)
- Arabic: سُوِيدِيّ (suwīdiyy)
- Armenian: շվեդ (hy) (šved)
- Azerbaijani: isveçli
- Breton: Svedad (br) m
- Bulgarian: швед m (šved), шве́дка f (švédka)
- Catalan: suec (ca) m, sueca (ca) f
- Chechen: швед (šʷed)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏫᏗ (aswidi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瑞典人 (zh) (ruìdiǎnrén)
- Czech: Švéd (cs) m, Švédka (cs) f
- Danish: svensker (da) c
- Dutch: Zweed (nl) m, Zweedse (nl) f
- Esperanto: svedo, svedino
- Estonian: rootslane (et)
- Faroese: svii m, svenskari m, svíi m
- Finnish: ruotsalainen (fi)
- French: Suédois (fr) m, Suédoise (fr) f
- Galician: sueco (gl) m, sueca f
- Georgian: შვედი (ka) (švedi)
- German: Schwede (de) m, Schwedin (de) f
- Greek: Σουηδός (el) m (Souidós), Σουηδή (el) f (Souidí), Σουηδέζος (el) m (Souidézos), Σουηδέζα (el) f (Souidéza)
- Guaraní: suesiagua
- Hawaiian: Kuekene
- Hebrew: שוודי (he)
- Hindi: स्वीडिश (hi) (svīḍiś), स्वीडियाई (hi) (svīḍiyāī)
- Hungarian: svéd (hu)
- Icelandic: Svíi (is) m
- Ido: Suediano (io)
- Irish: Sualannach m
- Italian: svedese (it) m or f
- Japanese: スウェーデン人 (ja) (suwēden-jin)
- Kazakh: швед (şved)
- Korean: 스웨덴인 (ko) (seuwedenin), 스웨덴 사람 (seuweden saram)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سوێدی (swêdî)
- Northern Kurdish: swêdî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: швед (şved)
- Latvian: zviedrs m, zviedriete f
- Lithuanian: švedas (lt) m, švedė (lt) f
- Macedonian: Швеѓанец m (Šveǵanec), Швеѓанка f (Šveǵanka)
- Maltese: żvediż m, żvediża f
- Northern Sami: ruoŧŧẹlaš
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svenske (no) m
- Nynorsk: svenske (nn) m
- Old English: Swēon m pl
- Old Norse: svíar m pl
- Persian: سوئدی (fa) (su'edi)
- Polish: Szwed (pl) m, Szwedka (pl) f
- Portuguese: sueco (pt) m, sueca f
- Romanian: suedez (ro) m, suedeză (ro) f
- Russian: швед (ru) m (šved), шве́дка (ru) f (švédka)
- Scottish Gaelic: Suaineach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Шве́ђанин m, Швеђ m, Швеђанка f
- Roman: Švéđanin, Švȅd (sh) m, Švéđānka f
- Sicilian: sbidisi m or f
- Slovak: Švéd m, Švédka f
- Slovene: Švéd (sl) m, Švédinja f
- Spanish: sueco (es) m, sueca (es) f
- Swahili: Mswidi (sw)
- Swedish: svensk (sv) c (males, or if gender is not important), svenska (sv) c (females, only if gender is important), svenne (sv) c (usually derogatory)
- Tajik: швед (šved)
- Turkish: İsveçli (tr)
- Ukrainian: швед m (šved), шве́дка f (švédka)
- Uzbek: shved (uz)
- Venetan: svedexe (vec) m or f
- Welsh: Swediad m or f
- Yiddish: שוועד m (shved)
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member of the ancient North Germanic tribe
References
- The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology 1
From Dutch Zweden, from Middle Dutch Zweden, Sweden.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Swede
- Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)
- Synonym: Koninkryk van Swede
Etymology 2
Noun
Swede
- plural of Sweed