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Swede
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swede
English
Etymology
en :der gml:Swêde :der gem:-<ety:der<non:Svíþjóð>> :inh ang:Swēoþēod 1
From en gml Swêde, from a en gem word akin to non Svíþjóð, ang Swēoþēod Sweden Swede nation, itself from ang Sweon Swēo Swede, from en gem-pro *swihô Swede. Cognate with nl Zweed, de Schwede. en suede.
thumb|240px|A crowd of Swedes.
Pronunciation
en /swiːd/
en En-au-swede.ogg AU
en iːd 1
Noun
A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.
en w:National Geographic 1989 May 175 5 The Baltic: Arena of Power Priit J. Vesilind 613 For the past nine years Swedes have been frustrated by foreign submarines probing their coastal waters.
en historical A member of an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden.
Derived terms
en Swedeland Swedeling Swedesboro Swedesburg Swedistan swede en Finland-Swede, en Finland Swede Swede from Finland, Finnish Swede Swedish Swedishness
Related terms
en Sweden
Translations
person from Sweden
Afrikaans: af Sweed
Albanian: sq suedez
Arabic: ar سُوِيدِيّ
Armenian: hy շվեդ
Asturian: ast suecu m, ast sueca f
Azerbaijani: az isveçli
Breton: br Svedad m
Bulgarian: bg швед m, bg шве́дка f
Catalan: ca suec m, ca sueca f
Chechen: ce швед
Cherokee: chr ᎠᏍᏫᏗ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 瑞典人 ruìdiǎnrén
Czech: cs Švéd m, cs Švédka f
Danish: da svensker c
Dutch: nl Zweed m, nl Zweedse f
Esperanto: eo svedo, eo svedino
Estonian: et rootslane
Faroese: fo svii m, fo svenskari m, fo svíi m
Finnish: fi ruotsalainen
French: fr Suédois m, fr Suédoise f
Galician: gl sueco m, gl sueca f
Georgian: ka შვედი
German: de Schwede m, de Schwedin f
Greek: el Σουηδός m, el Σουηδή f, el Σουηδέζος m, el Σουηδέζα f
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug suesiagua
Hawaiian: haw Kuekene
Hebrew: he שוודי
Hindi: hi स्वीडिश, hi स्वीडियाई
Hungarian: hu svéd
Icelandic: is Svíi m
Ido: io Suediano
Irish: ga Sualannach m
Italian: it svedese m f
Japanese: ja スウェーデン人 suwēden-jin
Kazakh: kk швед
Korean: ko 스웨덴인, ko 스웨덴 사람
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb سوێدی
Northern Kurdish: kmr swêdî
Kyrgyz: ky швед
Latvian: lv zviedrs m, lv zviedriete f
Lithuanian: lt švedas m, lt švedė f
Macedonian: mk Швеѓанец m, mk Швеѓанка f
Maltese: mt żvediż m, mt żvediża f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb svenske m
Nynorsk: nn svenske m
Old English: ang Swēon m-p
Old Norse: non svíar m-p
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Шведян m, rsk Шведянка f
Persian: fa سوئدی su'edi
Polish: pl Szwed m, pl Szwedka f
Portuguese: pt sueco m, pt sueca f
Romanian: ro suedez m, ro suedeză f
Russian: ru швед m, ru шве́дка f
Sami:
Northern Sami: se ruoŧŧẹlaš
Scottish Gaelic: gd Suaineach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Шве́ђанин m, sh Швеђ m, sh Швеђанка f
Latin: sh Švéđanin, sh Švȅd m, sh Švéđānka f
Sicilian: scn sbidisi m f
Slovak: sk Švéd m, sk Švédka f
Slovene: sl Švéd m, sl Švédinja f
Spanish: es sueco m, es sueca f
Swahili: sw Mswidi
Swedish: sv svensk c males, or if gender is not important, sv svenska c females, only if gender is important, sv svenne c usually derogatory
Tajik: tg швед
Turkish: tr İsveçli
Ukrainian: uk швед m, uk шве́дка f
Uzbek: uz shved
Venetan: vec svedexe m f
Welsh: cy Swediad m f
Yiddish: yi שוועד m
member of the ancient North Germanic tribe
German: de Svear p
Gothic: got *𐍃𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb svear m-p
Nynorsk: nn svear m-p
Old Norse: non svíar m-p
Russian: ru свей m-an
Swedish: sv svear c-p
References
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.
Anagrams
en deesw sewed weeds
en Ethnonyms Nationalities Sweden Germanic tribes
Afrikaans
af:
Etymology 1
af :inh nl:Zweden 1
From af nl Zweden, from af dum Zweden, dum Sweden.
Pronunciation
af /ˈswɪə̯.də/
af LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-Swede.wav
Proper noun
af Sweden Q34
af Koninkryk van Swede
Related terms
af Sweed
af Sweeds
Etymology 2
Noun
af noun form
af Sweed