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1.
sw-
consonant clust.
1 quotation in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
For all words beginning with
sw-
from here to the end of this volume [of the print MED], the practice of the MED is to record all variant forms except those beginning with
su-
; forms with
su-
are…
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