Icelandic

Verb

sverja ‎(third-person singular past indicative sór, third-person plural past indicative sórum, supine svarið)

1. to swear (make an oath)

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swarjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-. Cognate with Old English swerian ( > English swear), Old Frisian swera ( > West Frisian swarre) Old Saxon swerian ( > Low German swören, sweren), Old High German sweren, swerien ( > German schwören), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌽 ‎(swaran).

Verb

sverja

1. to swear

Descendants

References

• sverja in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press