Unknown Word(s)

[Claire Knudsen-Latta]

From: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=dream&searchmode=none
DREAM
mid-13c. in the sense "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping
person's mind" (also as a verb), probably related to O.N. *draumr*, Dan. *
drøm*, Swed. *drom*, O.S. *drom*, Du. *droom*, O.H.G. *troum*, Ger.
*traum*"dream," perhaps from W.Gmc.
**draugmas* "deception, illusion, phantasm" (cf. O.S. *bidriogan*, O.H.G. *
triogan*, Ger. *trügen* "to deceive, delude," O.N. *draugr* "ghost,
apparition"). Possible cognates outside Gmc. are Skt. *druh-* "seek to harm,
injure," Avestan *druz-* "lie, deceive." But O.E. *dream* meant only "joy,
mirth," also "music." Words for "sleeping vision" in O.E. were *mæting* and
*swefn* (from PIE **swep-no-*; cf. Gk. *hypnos*). Much study has failed to
prove that O.E. *dream* "noisy merriment" is the root of the modern word for
"sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Either the meaning
of the word changed dramatically or "vision" was an unrecorded secondary
O.E. meaning of *dream*, or there are two separate words here. "It seems as
if the presence of *dream* 'joy, mirth, music,' had caused *dream* 'dream'
to be avoided, at least in literature, and *swefn*, lit. 'sleep,' to be
substituted" [OED]. *Dream* in the sense of "ideal or aspiration" is from
1931, from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm"
(1888). Related: *Dreamed*; *dreaming*.

I would start from *swep-no (PIE) and work forward

Claire


On 22 April 2010 13:48, anheropl0x <anheropl0x at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
> So. in no dictionary can the word "dream" be found. Any idea what it might
> have been in Gothic?
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> 
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