swain Bedeutung / swain Übersetzung:
mid-12c., swein, “young man attendant upon a knight,” from Old Norse sveinn “boy, servant, attendant,” from Proto-Germanic *swainaz “attendant, servant,” properly “one’s own (man),” from Pie *swoi-no-, von root *s (w) e- “sich selbst, allein, auseinander” (siehe Idiom).