swoon

Meanings

Noun

• A faint.
• An infatuation.

Verb

• To faint, to lose consciousness.
• To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation.
• To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.

Origin

• From Middle English swoune, swone, from the verb (see below).
• From Middle English swounen, swonen, and aswoune, both ultimately from Old English ġeswōgen, past participle of swōgan (compare Old English āswōgan), from Proto-Germanic *swōganą, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weh₂gʰ-. Cognate with Low German swogen, Dutch zwoegen, dialectal Norwegian søgja. More at sough.