swart

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
• Black.
• Gloomy; malignant.

Noun

• Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker.

Verb

• To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.

Origin

• From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-.
• From Middle English swarten, from Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną; synchronically analyzable as swart#Etymology_1 + -en.
• Variant of sward.