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English word sword comes from Proto-Indo-European *swer-, Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w-, and later Proto-Germanic *swardiz (That which is sworn; a swearing; oath.)
*swer- (Proto-Indo-European)
to speak, talk, to cut, pierce, fester, ‘fester, suppurate’ later ‘pierce, wound’, to protect, to guard
*seh₂w- (Proto-Indo-European)
*su̯r̥dhom (Proto-Indo-European)
sword
*swardiz (Proto-Germanic)
That which is sworn; a swearing; oath.
*swerdą (Proto-Germanic)
Sword.
sweord (Old English)
A sword.
swerd (Middle English)
Sword (weapon).
sword (English)
(heraldiccharge) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.. (tarot) A card of this suit.. (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.. (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice and cut.. (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.. Someone paid to handle a sword.