drem

See also: Drem

Middle English

FWOTD – 16 January 2023

Alternative forms

• dreme, dreem, dreeme
• dream, dræm (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English drēam, from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz. Some senses are probably a semantic loan from Old Norse draumr, displacing sweven (from Old English swefn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɛːm/
• Rhymes: -ɛːm

Noun

drem (plural dremes)

1. music (either sung or instrumental)
2. voice, conversing
3. joy, mirthfulness
4. dream (especially a prophetic one)
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Job 20:8”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     As a dꝛeem fleynge awei he ſchal not be foundun he ſchal paſſe as a nyȝtis ſiȝt

     Like a dream going away, he won't be found; he'll disappear like a night's vision.

5. (waking) vision, premonition

Synonyms

• (dream, vision): sweven

Related terms

• dremen
• dremere
• dremynge

Descendants

• English: dream
• Scots: dreme

References

• “drēm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.
• “drēm, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-21.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• drijȇm (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drêːm/

Noun

drȇm m (Cyrillic spelling дре̑м)

1. slumber, doze

Declension

Declension of drem

	singular	plural
nominative	drem	dremovi
genitive	drema	dremova
dative	dremu	dremovima
accusative	drem	dremove
vocative	dreme	dremovi
locative	dremu	dremovima
instrumental	dremom	dremovima

Related terms

• dremati

Slovene

Verb

drem

1. first-person singular present of dreti