draumr

Old Norse

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

draumr m

1. dream

Descendants

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

References

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