dream
* related to the old norse draumr and the danish drøm - “merriment; noise”
* came from proto-germanic draugmas - “deception, illusion, phantasm”
* possible cognates: sanskrit druh - “seek to harm or injure”
* old english dream meant “joy, mirth, noisy merriment”, and also “music”
* this version is different from the modern word for “sleeping vision”
* it faded from use after early middle english
* before it meant “sleeping vision”, the old english dream (or swefn) meant “sleep”
(from “origin and history of dream”, etymonline.)
