swingen

Borrowed from English swing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʋɪ.ŋə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: swin‧gen
• Rhymes: -ɪŋən

swingen

1. (intransitive) to swing

Borrowed from English swing. Doublet of schwingen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪ.ŋən/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋən

swingen (weak, third-person singular present swingt, past tense swingte, past participle geswingt, auxiliary haben)

1. (music) to swing
   • 2018 November 20, Jenni Zylka, “Nackte Frauen, singende Bäumchen und Limbo”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Holly hat ihren Ex, den ehemaligen Thee Headcoats-Schlagzeuger Bruce Brand dabei, dazu Kontrabass und Gitarre, sie singt und klingt und swingt, dass es eine Freude ist.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (sex) to swing (to engage in swinging, wifeswapping, etc.)

• “swingen” in Duden online
• “swingen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch *swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan (“to swing”).

swingen

1. (intransitive) to swing, to sway
2. (intransitive) to fall, to topple
3. (transitive) to swing, to sway
4. (transitive) to fling outwards

• Dutch: zwingen
• Limburgish: zwinge

• “swinghen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “swingen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

swingen

1. alternative form of swyngen

Inherited from Old High German swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠wɪŋɡən/

swingen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present swinget, past tense swanc, past participle geswungen, past subjunctive swünge, auxiliary hān)

1. to swing

• German: schwingen

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “swingen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel