Translation
to sweat, to perspire
Word origin
From German schwitzen, from the same Germanic root as English sweat. The initial ŝv- follows the German spelling schw-, which is why the word looks nothing like Latin sudor.
- Origin
- Germanic, via German
- Root
- schwitzen
- English cognates
- sweat
Examples
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I was sweating under the hot sun.
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He always sweats when he runs in the park.
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We were sweating in the boiling hot room.
Note the hat: it is , not . Esperanto writes the German schw- as ŝv-, one letter for one sound, so the word has five letters and two syllables. The x-system spelling is sxviti, which is what you will see typed on a keyboard without the diacritics.
The verb is intransitive, so nothing takes the accusative after it. The sweat itself is ŝvito.
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