Talk:swim
etymology[edit]
Beyond Germanic, the etymology must be considered extremely questinable! unsigned comment by User:195.4.78.196 09:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
- What are you talking about? —Stephen (Talk) 02:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- What is he talking about?? Some Germanic attestations do NOT prove an ie. origin! Moreover, the connection of the two semantic fields, of self-propelled motion in water against feeling queasy or unsafe, is a pure assumption, and had to be removed. HJJHolm (talk) 14:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
causative sense[edit]
In several books, google books:"the swum group" seems to mean "the group which was made to swim", and many instances of the ... google books:"were swum" seem to mean "the ... were made to swim / were transported by swimming". ("Martin described how the animals from Skye were swum over the kyles to the mainland.") Are we missing a sense of [[swim]], or is there another way of interpreting this? - -sche (discuss) 22:50, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
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As usual here, the source Pokorny is hidden out of unscientific, primitive, political reasons. Though I do not follow him, Pokorny page 1046 argues for the here described solution which thus here is a plagiate.HJJHolm (talk) 08:49, 20 December 2021 (UTC)