draumr

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old English drēam (perhaps related to Modern English dream), Old Frisian drām (West Frisian dream), Old Saxon drōm (Low German Droom), Old High German troum (Modern German Traum).

Noun

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draumr m (genitive draums, plural draumar)

  1. dream

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: draumur
  • Faroese: dreymur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: draum
  • Old Swedish: drømber
  • Old Danish: drøm
  • Gutnish: dråim

References

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  • draumr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press