name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
swager
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Pronunciation
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Midlands: /ˈswɛ(ː)ɡ(.)ə(ɹ)/
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/ˈswäɡ(.)əɹ/ rural areas of Scotland
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CMU ARPABET: S W EY1 G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A brother-in-law.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: rustic
Examples
- Mehe swager wooner deh nowt at aw fer 'is kenship. 'e is a coont.
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noun
Meaning 3
A tool that performs swaging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology
* As a Dutch surname, from zwager (“son-in-law”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Schwager, with the same meaning as the Dutch word. Compare Swoger, Swagger.
Recorded in neither Old English nor Middle English. Perhaps a borrowing from Dutch or Low German, but this derivation is rather unlikely due to the presence of the words like sweġer (“mother-in-law”) and swēor (“father-in-law”) in some East Midlands dialects, which are derived from attested Old English and Middle English words sweger and sweor, respectively. Ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz (“husband's brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros (“husband's father”).
From swage + -er.