a. and sb. Also 8 Sue(o-)gothic. [ad. mod.L. Suio-, Sueogothicus, serving as adj. to Suiones (Sueones) Gothīque, which was used to denote the Sviar, Svear Swedes, and Götar (Göthar), older Gautar, the inhabitants of Götland (the southern portion of Sweden).] Swedish; the (Old and Middle) Swedish language.
1759. B. Stillingfl., trans. Linnæus’ Orat. Trav., in Misc. Tracts (1762), 16. Its name, still used among the Suegothic vulgar.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), VIII. 23/1. Of this Woden many wonderful things are related in the Sueo-gothic chronicles.
1814. Jamieson, Hermes Scythicus, I. 12. Alemannic ostar, Suio-Gothic ōster, Islandic austr, oriens. Ibid., II. 4. To the Islandic, the Suio-Gothic, including the ancient language of Sweden, is very nearly allied.
