Noun: dwell
| Singular | dwell |
| Plural | dwells |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like dwell
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Germanic *-janą
6. Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną
7. Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan
8. Old English dwellan
9. ▲
10. Old Norse dveljainflu.
11. Middle English dwellen
12. English dwell
13. From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”). See: Old English Nouns '
dwellan', Old Norse Nouns '
dvelja'.