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Where does “swane” come from?
swane (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch swano, from Proto-Germanic swanô.
Ancestry of “swane”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Dutch
swano
—
2
Proto-Germanic
swanô
—
Words derived from “swane”
zwaan
Zwaan
fluiten
knobbelzwaan
zwanenzang
zwarthalszwaan
soang
soang
swaan
fluitketel
gefluit
aanfluiten
fluiter
fluiteend
froiti
zwartbuikfluiteend
aanfluiting
Every word from Proto-Germanic swanô →