swine
noun
- plural swine. any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae
- the domestic hog, Sus scrofa
- a contemptible person
- a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /swaɪn/
name
- A small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1335).
noun
Etymology: From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
- plural of sow