Sweting
Sweting is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of swet (sweet) and -ing (possessed of the quality of).
Variants:
Swetinc [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 201].
Sweting [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 436].
Swoting [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 438].
Swēting [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 381].
Stem:
Swet = Sᴡᴇᴇᴛ [William Smith 1873 A Complete Etymology of the English Language, page 170, Swet = Sweet].
Suffix:
-ing = a suffix forming derivative masculine substantives, with the sense of ‘one belonging to’ or ‘of the kind of’, hence ‘one possessed of the quality of’ [Sir James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5 (I, J, K): 282].
Usage:
Swetinc was the mark of a moneyer working in London during the reign of King Æthelræd (Unræd): (approximately) “✠SᚹETINC M≀O LVND” [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 228 (number 259)].













