Talk:swim

etymology
Beyond Germanic, the etymology must be considered extremely questinable! unsigned comment by User:195.4.78.196 09:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * What are you talking about? —Stephen (Talk) 02:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)


 * What is he talking about?? Some Germanic attestations do NOT prove an ie. origin! Moreover, the connection of the two semantic fields, of self-propelled motion in water against feeling queasy or unsafe, is a pure assumption, and had to be removed. HJJHolm (talk) 14:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

causative sense
In several books, seems to mean "the group which was made to swim", and many instances of the ...  seem to mean "the ... were made to swim / were transported by swimming". ("Martin described how the animals from Skye were swum over the kyles to the mainland.") Are we missing a sense of [[swim]], or is there another way of interpreting this? - -sche (discuss) 22:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Source hidden
As usual here, the source Pokorny is hidden out of unscientific, primitive, political reasons. Though I do not follow him, Pokorny page 1046 argues for the here described solution which thus here is a plagiate.HJJHolm (talk) 08:49, 20 December 2021 (UTC)