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\ \ [OE] Sweet is part of an ancient family of ‘sweet’-words that goes back to the Indo- European base *swād-. From this evolved Greek hēdússweet’ (and also hēdonépleasure’, source of English hedonism [19]), Latin suāvissweet, pleasant’ (source of English suave) and suādēreadvise’ (source of English dissuade and persuade), and Sanskrit svādúspleasanttasting’.
\ \ Its Germanic descendant was *swōtja-, which evolved into German süss, Dutch zoot, Swedish söt, Danish sød, and English sweet. The use of the noun sweet for a ‘piece of confectionery’ (presumably short for sweetmeat [15]) dates from the mid-19th century.
\ \ Cf.DISSUADE, HEDONISM, PERSUADE, SUAVE

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