swine

Meaning

Noun

• A pig .
• A contemptible person .
• A police officer; a "pig".
• Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
• Plural of sow

Origin

• From Middle English swine, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- ("pig"), equivalent to sow + -en.
• Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́, Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς, Persian خوک.