draumr

Old Norse

Etymology

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

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

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