schwart

See also: schwärt

German Low German

Alternative forms

• swatt (Münsterland)
• swart, svart (in some other dialects)

Etymology

From Old Saxon swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swórdos (“dirty, dark, black”).

Adjective

schwart

1. (Paderbornisch, Lippisch, Low Prussian) black

See also

• (Paderbornisch) bloh (“blue”), groin (“green”), rauth (inflected rauh-) (“red”), witt (“white”)
• (Münsterländisch) blao (“blue”), raut/raud (inflected raud-) (“red”), witt (“white”)