swegan

Related to swōgan (“to resound, rush, roar”). Compare Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌲𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (swēgnjan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweː.jɑn/

swēġan

1. to make a noise
2. to rush, roar, crash
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Eft hē ontende sum hǣðen templ: þā ġewende sē līġ, ðurh þǣs windes blǣd, tō sumes mannes hūse, ðe þǣr ġehende stōd; ac Martinus āstāh on ðām stiċelan hrōfe, and sette hine sylfne onġēan ðām sweġendum līġe, and hē sōna ðrēow ðwyres wið þǣs windes

     Afterwards he set fire to a heathen temple; then through the blowing of the wind, the fire turned to a man's house that stood nearby; but Martinus climbed on the steep roof and set himself against the roaring fire, and he immediately turned it the opposite direction of the wind

3. to produce tones
4. to sing or play music
5. to signify by sound

• swēġ
• swōgan

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “SWĒĠAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.