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語源

From 中期英語 sweven, from 古期英語 swefn (“sleep, dream, vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *swefn, from Proto-Germanic *swefną, *swefnaz (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *supnós (“dream”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”).

Cognate with Dutch suf (“drowsy”), Middle High German swēb (“sleep”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål søvn (“sleep”), Faroese svøvnur (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn, svöfn (“sleep; dream”), Norwegian Nynorsk svebn, svemn, svevn, svøbn, svømn, sømn, søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”), Latin somnus (“sleep, slumber, drowsiness”), Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna, “sleep; dream”), Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).

発音

IPA: /ˈswɛvən/
韻: -ɛvən

名詞

sweven (plural swevens) (archaic)

A dream.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
  
  The kynge with the honderd knyghtes mette a wonder dreme two nyghtes a fore the bataille / that ther blewe a grete wynde & blewe doun her castels and her townes / and after that cam a water and bare hit all awey / Alle that herd of the sweuen said / it was a token of grete batayll
  
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
  
  [The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.
A vision.
- The Golden Legend
  
  And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?

アナグラム

venews

中期英語

FWOTD – 19 February 2020

語源 1

From 古期英語 swefn, from Proto-West Germanic *swefn, from Proto-Germanic *swefnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos. Some forms influenced by Old Norse söfn, an alternative form of svefn.

別の表記

swevyn, swevon, swevene, swevne, swheven, squeven, sueven, seven, swene
swefen, suefen, sweoven (Early Middle English)

発音

IPA: /ˈswɛvən/, /ˈswɛ̞ːvən/

名詞

sweven (plural swevenes)

dream (especially a prophetic one)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 2:17, folio 91, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe 's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
  
  ⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſ eiþ · Y ſ chal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]phe ſie ⁊ ȝoure ȝonge men ſchulen ſe viſioūs. ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme ſweuenes
  
  "And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: "I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]
(waking) vision, premonition

同意語

drem

派生した語

English: sweven
Scots: sweven, swevyn

参照

“swē̆ven, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 December 2018.

語源 2

From 古期英語 swefan, from Proto-West Germanic *swefan, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną.

発音

IPA: /ˈswɛ̞ːvən/

動詞

sweven

to put to sleep
(figuratively) to become calm (of the sea)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *sweven* (weak in -ed)
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) sweven, sweve

1st-person singular	sweve	sweved
2nd-person singular	swevest	swevedest
3rd-person singular	sweveth	sweved
subjunctive singular	sweve	sweved
imperative singular	sweve	—

plural	sweven, sweve	sweveden, swevede
imperative plural	sweveth, sweve	—

participles	swevynge, swevende	sweved, ysweved

Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

派生語

asweved
isweven

参照

“swēven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

・sweven
・torte
・tito
・cryptic definition
・abluo
・Harbour
・paleogenetics
・spherical geometry
・Jerseys
・dewan

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