drem
Middle English
/drɛːm/
noun
Definitions
- music ether sung or instrumental
- voice, conversing
- joy, mirthfulness
- dream especially a prophetic one
- waking vision, premonition
Etymology
Inherited from Old English drēam (singing, sound of music, delight, melody, musical instrument, harmony, music, frenzy, rapture, gladness, jubilation, pleasure, ecstasy, song, rejoicing, mirth, joy) inherited from *draum inherited from Proto-Germanic *draumaz (dream).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*draumaz
Gloss
dream
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
夢
Emoji
☁️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dreamer English
- *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰrowgʰ-mos Proto-Indo-European
- drøm Norwegian Bokmål
- *draumaz Proto-Germanic
- dröm Swedish
- draum Norwegian Nynorsk
- dream Old English
- dreamcræft Old English
- dreamere Old English
- dreamleas Old English
- drēam Old English
- drēamere Old English
- drēman Old English
- drīeman Old English
- eþeldream Old English
- pipdream Old English
- wuldordream Old English
- dreme Middle English
- dremen Middle English
- dremer Middle English
- dremyng Middle English
- draumr Old Norse
- dreyma Old Norse
- drøm Danish
- draumur Icelandic
- *droum Old High German
- troum Old High German
- dreymur Faroese
- *draum gmw-pro
- *drōm Old Dutch
- drōm Old Dutch
- drom Old Saxon
- dram Old Frisian
- drām Old Frisian