sweltan

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to die

Usage notes

 * Dying "of" something can be expressed with the dative or instrumental case: Mē is lēofre þæt iċ hungre swelte þonne sċame (“I'd rather die of hunger than of shame”). Various prepositions are also commonly used, namely, , and , the latter especially with diseases: Þū ġefōre on ūtsihte (“You have died of dysentery”).


 * The dative/instrumental is also used for "dying [a certain kind of] death": Sibsume dēaðe hēo swealt (“She died a peaceful death”).

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:sweltan.

Etymology
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, modern 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to die
 * gisāhun iro barn qualmu sueltan — they saw their child die (Heliand, verse 750)