dremen
Middle English
/ˈdreːmən/
verb
Definitions
- To dream of something
- To talk or sing noisily.
- (rare) To have a flight of fancy.
- (rare) To believe; to take as fact.
- (rare) To reverberate of musical instruments
- (rare) To celebrate or be joyful.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English drēman inherited from Proto-Germanic *draumijaną affix from Middle English drem.
Origin
Middle English
drem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰrowgʰ-mos Proto-Indo-European
- *draumaz Proto-Germanic
- *draumijaną Proto-Germanic
- drieman Old English
- drēam Old English
- drēaming Old English
- drēman Old English
- drīeman Old English
- drem Middle English
- dremer Middle English
- dremyng Middle English
- dreyma Old Norse
- *drōmen Old Dutch
- dreame Western Frisian
- *drēma Old Frisian