Swedish
ansvar, English
answer and German
Antwort are cognates. The Swedish word means "responsibility", though, which is also the original meaning of the word, "to swear against"; "Re-sponsibility" comes from
rispondere, respondere, which also means "to answer", just like the German and English words, whereas the verb
spondere on its own means " to swear". Swedish for "answer" is
svar, which originally means "swear". Modern Swedish for the verb "swear" is
svära. The German word for "responsibility" is
Verantwortung, which, just like the English
responsibility and the Latin
respondere is a later construction.
So someone who is responsible is originally someone who has sworn an oath