Sway

Definition: Sway

Sway

Noun

1. Controlling influence.

2. Pitching dangerously to one side.

Verb

1. Move back and forth in an unstable manner; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "the tree shook in the wind".

2. Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back".

3. Win approval or support for; "Carry all before one".

4. Move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control.

5. Sway gently back and forth, as of flowers or tress in the wind.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Engineering & Technology

Environment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sway

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Authority

Hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway; (severity); fangs, clutches, talons; rod of empire; (scepter).

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

Curvature

Verb: be curved; Adjective: curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate; curl, turn; reenter.

Government

Rule, sway, command, control, administer; govern; (direct); lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne; sway the scepter, wield the scepter; wear the crown.

Command, empire, sway, rule; dominion, domination; sovereignty, supremacy, suzerainty; lordship, headship; chiefdom; seigniory, seigniority.

Influence

Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.

Motive

Influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby.

Power

Ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength.

Severity

Arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion; strong hand, tight hand.

Crosswords: Sway

I have no sway over the weather (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks)

The room started to sway, to shiver and creak (Vincent; writing credit: Tim Burton)

And I see your body sway, c'mon (Larger Than Life; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Sway of your hips 'round rings true (Deep Inside of You; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

South American Sway (1944)

Where the North Holds Sway (1927)

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Books

• Prime Sway (reference)

• Sing it! Say it! Stamp it! Sway it! Volume 1 (reference)

• Sway and Surrender (reference)

• Sway village plan (reference)

• Swing 'n Sway Big Band-5 Cassettes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Wake Up Show: Video Freestyles, Vol. 1 - Tech & Sway (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sway (reference)

• Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye: 21 of His Greatest Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The throng is restive under the sway of the paladins

Mr Dedalus began to sway his head to and fro, crooning like a country singer

They saw him yawn and sway, and they saw him put his arms on the table and rest his head on his arms and go to sleep

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Business

Often the promotion divisions may hold sway in a dispute as the pressures imposed on the society by the recent economic crisis have reinforced the preference for economic advance. (references)

Economic History

Honduras

Foreign capital, plantation life, and conservative politics held sway in Honduras from the late 19th until the mid-20th century. (references)

The Holy See

In the middle of the 19th century, the Popes held sway over the Papal States, including a broad band of territory across central Italy. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

However, the Chief Justice has made clear his opposition to the practices of the past and his intention to make the law, rather than political considerations, hold sway over the legal process, including decisions on whether or not to prosecute. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

While slipping from 11 percent to roughly 9 percent of the vote nationally in 1999, the IFP still managed to hold sway in KwaZulu-Natal, again sweeping most rural areas of the province. (references)

Women

East Timor

For example, in some regions or villages where traditional practices hold sway, women may not inherit or own property. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sway": have sway over ♦ hold sway ♦ hold sway over ♦ sway back ♦ sway bar ♦ sway up ♦ under his sway ♦ under the sway of ♦ under the sway of passion. Additional references.

Beginning with "sway": Sway-backed, sway-beam, Sway-bracing.

Albanian

tundje (agitation, beating, flourish, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, misdoubt, nutation, oscillation, reel, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, shimmy, swing, teeter, thrill, tossing, waddle, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle, wiggle-waggle), tundem (budge, dodder, jiggle, jumble, niddle-noddle, nod, nutate, oscillate, quake, reel, rock, stagger, swing, wabble, waddle, waggle, wamble, wobble), ndikoj (affect, bias, color, colour, influence, operate, prepossess), ndikim (clout, drag, effect, hold, impact, influence, interest, pull, reaction, stimulus), lëkundje (backlash, dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, reel, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, swing, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble), lëkundem (dangle, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هيمنة (ascendancy, dominance, domination, overriding, predominance, predomination, uppercut), ‏حكم (administer, administration, arbiter, arbitration, ascendancy, authority, award, control, decide, decision, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, fastening, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, opinion, reckon, referee, regimen, rule, ruling, run, umpire, verdict), ‏تمايل (bob, flexibility, lopsided, lurch, nod, reel, roll, stagger, swing, teeter, titubation, waver, weave, wobble), ‏تأرجح (fluctuate, fluctuation, hover, overbalance, pitch, rock, rocking, seesaw, swing, teeter, vacillate, vacillation), ‏سطوة (ascendancy, ascendency), ‏إشمئزاز (abhorrence, horror, loathing, nausea, obsession, pout, qualm, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

люшкам се (labor, labour, welter), имам власт над (have sway over), политам да падна (stagger), полюлявам се (rock, swag, swing), поклащам (jiggle, rock, shake, wag, waggle), поклащам се (rock, waddle, waggle, wobble), люлеене (cradling, oscillation, rock, seesaw, swing, vacillation, vibration), люлея (flap, rock, shake, swing), държа (conserve, held, hold, keep, maintain, nurse, own, poise, stand on, stick to), люшкам (reel, roll, swing), царувам (reign), люшкане, олюлявам (reel, rock, stumble along, teeter, topple), олюляване (reel), влияние (action, coloring, colouring, credit, dominance, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, influence, interest, leaven, prestige, pull, punch, purchase, reach, stimulus), владичество (empire, mastery), владея (command, control, dominate, hold sway over, own, possess, ride, wield), въртя (manage, move, revolve, roll, roll about, rotate, spin, swing, switch, swivel, toss about, trifle, turn, twiddle, wag, wheel about, wiggle, wind), клоня (converge, incline, lean, squint, trend), люлея се (nutate, oscillate, rock, seesaw, swing, teeter, toss, undulate, vacillate, vibrate). (various references)

Chinese 

颭 , 晃 (dazzle, to shade), 搖動 (shake), 扤 (to move), �"�動 (swing), 摇动. (various references)

Czech

vláda (administration, governance, government, policy, reign, rule, sceptre, state), ovlivnit (impinge), ovládat (command, control, dominate, govern, handle, manage, overmaster, possess, tutor, wield), moc (authority, badly, clout, enormously, force, forcefulness, might, mighty, much, potency, power, strength, too, very), mávat (brandish, flap, shake, wave), mávání (flap), kolísat (falter, fluctuate, oscillate, shake, stagger, vacillate, vary, waver, wobble), kolébání (cradling, roll), kývat se (nod, pendulate, swing, wabble, waggle, wiggle, wobble), houpat (bounce, cradle), houpání (dangling, roll, swing, wabble, wobble). (various references)

Danish

svinge (brandish, fling, swing, wave, wave about). (various references)

Dutch

zwieren (swing, turn), zwiepen (swing), zwaaien (brandish, dangle, fling, swing, wave, wave about), slingeren (brandish, fling, meander, oscillate, roll, swing, twist, wave, wave about, wind around). (various references)

Esperanto

svingiĝi (swing). (various references)

Farsi 

متمایل شدن یاکردن وبعقیده ای , نوسان (Lurch, Pendulum, Swing, Undulation, Vibration), تاب خوردن (Oscillate, Swab, Swing), تاب (Glow, Patience, Swing, Twist), سلطه حکومت کردن , این سووان سوجنبیدن , اهتزاز (Swing, Vibration), درنوسان بودن (Tilt). (various references)

Finnish

y-akseli-tärinä (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), vaappua (rock, swing, waddle), poikittaissuuntainen tärinä (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), keinua (rock, roll, seesaw, swing), huojuttaa (rock, shake, swing), huojua (rock, swing), horjuttaa (cause . . to totter, cause to waver, deflect a person from his course, shake), horisontaalinen tärinä (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), hoippua (totter), heiluttaa (brandish, fling, rock, swing, wag, wave, wave about, whisk), heilua (oscillate, rock, swing), heilahtaa (swing), heilahdella (fluctuate, oscillate, swing), häilyä (swing, waver). (various references)

French

oscillation (swaying), balancement (swaying). (various references)

German

schwingen (brandish, fling, flourish, linger, oscillate, pulsate, swing, swung, to oscillate, vibrate, wave, wave about, whisk, wield), schwanken (alternate, dither, fluctuate, hesitate, oscillate, oscillation, pitch, range, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, stagger, swing, teeter, to dither (between), to falter, to fluctuate, to sway, totter, tumble, unsteadiness, vacillate, vacillation, vary, vibrate, waver, wobble). (various references)

Greek 

ταλαντεύομαι (dangle, fluctuate, oscillate, seesaw, shilly-sally, swing, teeter, totter, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� ועע (move, rock, waver), ל�"ת� ו�"�" (fluctuate, stagger, teeter, totter, vacillate, vibrate, waver), ל�"ת� ע� ע (shake, swing), ל�"ת� �"� �" (fluctuate, oscillate, rock, seesaw, swing, teeter), ל�"שפיע על (affect, induce). (various references)

Hungarian

lengés (flutter, oscillation, scalloping, swag, swing, swinging, vibration, wave), ingás (oscillation, swag, swing, wabble, wave, wobble), uralom (domain, domination, dominion, empire, hegemony, mastery, raj, regime, reign, rule, suzerainty), lóbálás (brandish, flourish), kilengés (amplitude, deflection, deflexion, excursion, swing), kibillenés, hintáztatás, hintázás (see-saw, swing), himbálózás (swag), hatalom (ascendancy, authority, empire, force, hank, hold, lever, leverage, lordship, mastership, mastery, might, potency, power), befolyás (ascendancy, drag, hank, hold, impact, inflow, influence, leading, lever, leverage, potency, suck). (various references)

Indonesian

terayun-ayun (reel), mengubah (amend, compose, distort, modify), kekuasaan (authorization, clout, dominance, domination, hegemony, power), goyangan (fluctuation, oscillation, staggering). (various references)

Italian

vibrazione sull asse y vibrazione trasversale (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), vacillare (dither, falter, flicker, jiggle, reel, shake, swim, totter, wabble, waver, wobble), reggere (be ruled, bear, govern, hold, hold on, hold out, last, manage, rule, run, stand, take, wield), oscillazione (fluctuation, oscillation, rocking, swinging, vibration, waving), oscillare (balance, dither, flicker, fluctuate, jiggle, oscillate, range, rock, seesaw, swing, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), ondeggiare (flutter, hesitate, ripple, rock, roll, undulate, wave, waver), influenzare (actuate, affect, bias, condition, influence, prepossess), impulso (actuation, boost, drive, impetus, impulse, momentum, propulsion, pulse, push, urge), il potere (authority, capacity, dint, influence, might, power), governo (administration, direction, government, governmental, govt, housekeeping, rule, running, steerage), governare (conduct, control, govern, restrain, rule, run, steer, take care), dominio (command, demesne, domain, domination, dominion, lordship, mastership, mastery, rule), dominare (be on top of things, command, control, control oneself, curb, dominate, govern, Lord, master, order, overbear, overlook, overmaster, overrule, predominate, restrain, rule, subdue, walk over), barcollare (falter, lurch, reel, stagger, teeter, totter, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スイング戦略 (Sweden, Sweden relay, sweep, swimming, swing, swing strategy, switch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スウェー . (various references)

Korean 

동�" (fluctuation, shake, shaking, Wabble, Wobble). (various references)

Manx

lunjeaney (swaying, swing; wobbling, swinging, wobble), leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, swaying, swerve, swing, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture). (various references)

Pig Latin

aysway.(various references)

Portuguese

vibração transversal (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), vibração eixo y (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), vacilar (boggle, chop, crane, diddle, falter, flinch, fluctuate, hand back, hesitate, niddle-noddle, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, quail, quiver, repose, shilly-shally, shuffle, stagger, teeter, toddle, totter, tremble, vacillate, waver), oscilar (flap, float, fluctuate, oscillate, poise, quake, shimmy, swing, totter, vacillate, wabble, wave, waver, wobble), oscilação (cant, change-over, chop, fluctuation, oscillator, swing, swinging, teeter, variation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wave, waver, wobble), manejar (carry, do without, drag out, handle, lug, manage, manipulate, pull, wield), gingar (waddle), fazer oscilar (oscillate, pendulate, wabble, wobble), empunhar (wield), brandir (brandish, rattle, shake, wave, wield), balanço (audit, rocking, swing, teeter, vacillation, waggle, weighing machine), balançar (balance, cantillate, consider, dandle, lurch, rock, send, shake, swing, teeter, wabble, weigh, wobble), agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, cob, commove, convulse, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir up, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk). (various references)

Romanian

stãpâni (check, command, control, dominate, get under, govern, have, hold, hold in leash, keep in, manage, own, quell, rage, reign, restrain, ride, rule, subdue, subjugate, vanquish, wield), se legãna (dangle, flap, nod, reel, rock, swing), se codi (linger, shuffle), se balansa (balance, pendulate, swing), sceptru (authority, crown, power, rod, scepter, sceptre), stãpânire (authority, command, continence, control, demesne, dominance, domination, dominion, empire, enjoyment, government, grip, hand, holding, keeping, lordship, masterdom, mastery, ownership, possession, reign, rule, sovereignty), legãnare (roll, seesaw, swing), balansa (balance, make up, rock, swing), balansare (balancing, seesaw, swing), clãtina (convulse, rock, shake, stagger, stir, totter, wobble), conducere (administration, conduct, control, direction, directorate, driving, governance, government, guidance, helm, lead, leadership, leading, management, mastership, scepter, sceptre, steerage, superintendence), domina (command, dominate, get the upper hand, govern, have the upper hand, hold dominion over, overlook, rule), ezita (back, boggle, crane, demur, falter, fluctuate, halt, hang, hesitate, hobble, hold back, pause, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stand off, stand on, vacillate, veer, waver, wobble), guverna (control, govern, manage, reign, restrain, rule, steer), guvernare (administration, dominion, governance, government, rule), ţine un sceptru, legãna (balance, cradle, dangle, rock, stagger, swing, undulate, wave), mânui (handle, manage, manipulate, operate, prove, wield), mãrire (accretion, aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, authority, development, enlargement, gain, glory, grandeur, increase, magnification, rise, splendor, splendour, state), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), influenţa (affect, bias, bring to bear, influence, lobby, predetermine, reach, work). (various references)

Russian 

тенденция (tendency, trend), колыхаться (waver), колебаться колебание (whiffling), качаться (dangle, nutate, pendulate, rocked, seesawed, swing, vacillate, vibrate, wave), качать (dandle, rock, swing, swung), качание (swing, swinging, teeter, weaving, wobble), власть (ascendancy, ascendency, attribution, authority, clutch, control, domination, governance, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, mastery, power). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastraniti (astray: go astray, deviate, digress, swerve), zalelujati, uticati na, uticaj (ascendant, hold, influence, interest, say), poljuljati (rock, shake, stagger), njihati (hunt, oscillate, swing, waggle), njihanje (nutation, oscillation, swing, swinging, wag, waggle), lelujati (swing, wave). (various references)

Spanish

sacudir (bang, beat, invertebrate, jog, jolt, kick in, shake, shake off, shake out, shake up, toss, worry), sacudimiento (rumble-tumble), mover (actuate, Bob, budge, cause, dispose, drive, hitch, inch, jar, lead, move, nod, play, prompt, pull, roll, shake, shift, stir, turn over, waft, wag, work, wriggle), balancearse (balance, Bob, roll about, swing, teeter, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up), balanceo (rocking, swaying, swing, swinging, teeter), imperio (empire, imperial), inclinar a (careen, kotow, kowtow, lead), influencia (ascendancy, clout, Diapason, heft, hold, impact, inflow, influence, influx, power, pressure), mecerse (rock), balancear (balance, poise, rock, swing, weigh), meneo (toss, wag, waggle, wiggle, wriggle), vibración transversal (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), oscilación (oscillation, swing), poder (ability, ascendancy, authority, be able, be able to, can, capability, capacity, dominion, ennoblement, know how, may, might, mightiness, power, power of attorney, puissance, to be able, warrant), vaivén (coming and going, seesaw, to and fro), vibración en el eje y (side-to-side vibration, transverse vibration, y-axis vibration), menearse (hustle, wag, wiggle, wriggle). (various references)

Swedish

vingla (lurch, roll, teeter, wobble), vackla (boggle, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, haver, hitch, hover, oscillate, pendulate, shilly shally, stagger, teeter, totter, vacillate, waver, wobble), svänga (brandish, camber, curve, flourish, oscillate, pivot, swing, vacillate, veer, wheel, whirl). (various references)

Turkish

sarsılmak (be cut up, be shaken, be shattered, careen, jar, jerk, jolt, judder, quake, rock, shake, shock), saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, distort, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, swerve, veer, veer round, vitiate, warp, wring), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), sallanma (hurry up, jolt, look alive, look snappy, lurch, make it snappy, oscillation, rocking, shaking, swing, swinging, taking, vacillation, wag, wagging, wobble, wriggle), hükmetme (commanding, domination, possessive, suzerainty), aklını çelmek (allure, beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, suborn), dalgalanma (fluctuation, ripple, roll, ruffle, surge, surging, undulation), eğilimi olmak (be disposed to, incline, slant, squint, tend), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, tilt, warp), egemenlik (ascendancy, ascendency, dominance, domination, hegemony, imperium, mastery, Raj, reign, rule, sovereignty, supremacy), etki (action, bearing, clout, drag, drift, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, force, forcefulness, hold, impact, impress, impression, imprint, incidence, influence, interest, jolt, leaven, penetration, point, potency, pull, purchase, reflection, reflexion, ring, sound, stamp, virtue, weight), etki etmek (act, affect, effect, have influence upon, operate), üzerinde etkisi olmak (have weight with), hüküm sürmek (be rife, command, govern, king it, prevail, reign), yönlendirmek (canalize, conduct, direct, divert, guide, head, incline, lead, Orient, orientate, parlay, process, prompt, shape, shoo, stage, steer), hükmetmek (adjudge, assume, award, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, bestride, command, decide on, dominate, domineer, govern, make an award, overrule, reckon, rule, rule over), idare (admin, administration, chancellery, conduct, control, disposition, dominion, economy, government, handling, helm, management, mastery, regimen, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, thrift, wire), meyilli olmak (batter, be inclined, lean, shelve, slant, slope, squint), tesir (effect, efficacy, impress, impression, influence), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head). (various references)

Turkmen 

ykjamak (flicker, swing). (various references)

Ukrainian

коливатися (fluctuate, nutate, oscillate, quake, shimmy, teeter, thrill, vacillate, veer, wabble, wobble), гойдати (cradle, dandle, swing, waff, wag, wiggle), гойдання (dingle-dangle, oscillation, swing, swinging, vibration, wabble, wobble), впливати (affect, bear in, influence, manipulate, operate, predetermine, react), правління (rule). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lắc lư sự thống trị, sự đu đưa (dingle-dangle), thế lực (importance, power, reign). (various references)

Welsh

rhwysg (pomp), rhwyfo (row, toss about), gwegian (totter). (various references)

dicione, dicionem, dicioni, dicionis, inflecto. (various references)

voguer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sway": swayable, swayback, swaybacked, swaybacks, swayed, swayer, swayers, swayful, swaying, sways. (additional references)

Words ending with "sway": crossway, expressway. (additional references)

Words containing "sway": crossways, expressways, unswayed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asway, Eswa, eway, fway, oway, Sayf, sayy, Sgwyd, Shwayb, soay, sqay, Suwaya, Swaby, swagy, swail, swair, swak, swamy, swao, swav, swax, swayl, swaz, swei, swey, Sweyn, swiv, Swraj, swy, zwei. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ways, yaws.

-1 letter: ays, saw, say, was, way, yaw.

-2 letters: as, aw, ay, ya.

+1 letter: gawsy, swamy, sways, washy, waspy, yawls, yawns, yawps.

+2 letters: always, bylaws, byways, noways, psywar, sawfly, sawney, sawyer, seaway, skyway, strawy, subway, swabby, swampy, swanky, swarty, swayed, swayer, sweaty, wastry, waveys.

+3 letters: airways, anyways, anywise, bewrays, byelaws, cogways, endways, eyewash, fishway, flyways, hawkeys, haymows, keyways, lawyers, leeways, logways, midways, oilways, psywars, runways, sallowy, sawneys, sawyers, scrawly, scrawny, seaways, shadowy, shipway, sideway, skidway, skywalk, skyward, skyways, slipway, someway, sprawly, subways, swarthy, swayers, swayful, swaying, tawneys, washday, waspily, wastery, waylays, wayless, wayside, weasely, whydahs, yarrows, yawners, yawpers.