From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-08-05, guido wugi  wrote:   
      
   > "Eid" is more for institutional/judicial usage, "Schwur" (also) more   
   > general.   
      
   I think so, too.   
      
   > In Dutch we have "eed" (oath) and "zweren" (to swear [an oath, not   
   > blasphemy which has "vloeken", "vloek"=curse]), but "zweer" has no oath   
   > meaning, it does mean ulcer, with a verb "zweren" conjugated differently.   
      
   I feel the verb "schwören - schwor - geschworen" is used a lot more   
   than the noun.  The -ö- is odd... Pfeifer's Etym. Dict. doesn't   
   say, but I assume Early Modern German sporadic rounding e > ö under   
   the influence of the preceding [ʃʷv].   
      
   As in Dutch, "Eid"/"Schwur"/"schwören" never refer to 'curse, blasphemy',   
   for which "Fluch"/"fluchen" are used.   
      
   For the ulcer, the German cognate is "Geschwür" related to the   
   semi-obsolescent verb "schwären".  Those appear to be unrelated to   
   "Schwur".   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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