ett svärd

svärd in a sentence

• Riddaren drog sitt svärd
  The knight drew his sword
• Han svingade svärdet
  He swung his sword
• Han stötte svärdet i drakens buk
  He thrust his sword into the belly of the dragon
• Han högg av tentakeln med svärdet
  He cut off the tentacle with his sword
• Han stack svärdet i skidan
  He sheathed his sword
• svärdets vassa egg
  the sharp edge of the sword
• smida ett svärd
  forge a sword

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Origin

From Old Swedish sværþ, from Old Norse sverð, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, from Proto-Indo-European *su̯r̥dhom, ultimately from *swer- (“to cut; to fester”).

Nearby common words

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