Swan if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight. The English word 'swan', akin to the German "Schwan", Dutch "zwaan" and Swedish "svan", is derived from Indo-European root "*swen" (to sound, to sing). Young swans are known as "swanlings" or as "cygnets"; the latter derives via Old French "cigne" or "cisne" (diminutive suffix -"et" "little") from the Latin word "", a variant form of "cycnus" "swan", itself from the Greek "kýknos", a word of the same meaning. An adult male is a "cob", from Middle
Swan House, Chelsea Embankment contiguous red-brick houses built in the late 1870s, adjacent to the Chelsea Physic Garden by notable architects of the day. In 1892, the journal "The British Architect" hailed Swan House and its neighbors as “some of the finest specimens of modern domestic architecture in London.” The building owes its name to its location on the site of what was an inn named The Swan. Creating some confusion, now it is the newer, current structure, rather than the long-destroyed inn that is frequently called the Old Swan House. The old Swan Inn is sometimes misidentified with any of several Swan inns