swine
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). By surface analysis, sow + -en.
swine (plural swine or swines)
In its literal sense, swine is often used, like cattle, as an uncountable plurale tantum: 200 head of swine.
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