drem
Appearance
See also: Drem
Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English drēam, from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz. Some senses are probably a semantic loan from Old Norse draumr, displacing sweven (from Old English swefn).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]drem (plural dremes)
- music (either sung or instrumental)
- voice, conversing
- joy, mirthfulness
- dream (especially a prophetic one)
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Job 20:8”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- As a dꝛeem fleynge awei he ſchal not be foundun he ſchal paſſe as a nyȝtis ſiȝt
- Like a dream going away, he won't be found; he'll disappear like a night's vision.
- (waking) vision, premonition
Synonyms
[edit]- (dream, vision): sweven
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “drēm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
- “drēm, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
Old English
[edit]Noun
[edit]drēm m
- Alternative form of drēam
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]drȇm m (Cyrillic spelling дре̑м)
Declension
[edit]Declension of drem
Related terms
[edit]Slovene
[edit]Verb
[edit]drem
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- Middle English semantic loans from Old Norse
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- Rhymes:Middle English/ɛːm
- Rhymes:Middle English/ɛːm/1 syllable
- Middle English lemmas
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- enm:Music
- enm:Sleep
- enm:Talking
- Old English lemmas
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- sh:Sleep
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