different between slive vs swive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English sliven, from Old English sl?fan (“to cleave, split”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?ban? (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).

Verb

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past slove or slived, past participle sliven or slived)

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Noun

slive (plural slives)

1. (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

Related terms

• sliver

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to slip.

Verb

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.

Related terms

• sliverly

Anagrams

• Elvis, Levi's, Levis, Lévis, Viels, evils, lives, veils, vleis, vlies

Slovene

Noun

slíve

1. inflection of slíva:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

English

Etymology

From Middle English swiven, from Old English sw?fan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *sw?ban? (“to wipe, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend”). Cognate with Old Frisian sw?va, sw?fa (“to waver”), Old Norse sv?fa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”). Related to Old English swift (“swift”), Middle English swyvel (“swivel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

swive (third-person singular simple present swives, present participle swiving, simple past and past participle swived)

1. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).

   Synonyms: go to bed with, sard, jape, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
2. (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

   Synonyms: crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow

Derived terms

• swiver (noun)
• swiving (noun)

Translations

Further reading

• “swive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• views, wives