i was younger then, but just as full of dreams
fernweh - (n.) feeling homesick for a place you’ve never been
i was younger then, but just as full of dreams
fernweh - (n.) feeling homesick for a place you’ve never been
* derived from the latin autumnus and possibly the ancient etruscan root autu-, which means the passing of the year.
* was used as the old french autompne (automne in modern french and autumpne in middle english) before it was normalised into the original latin
* before the 16th century, harvest was used to refer to the season
* the word backend, once a common way to refer to the season, has been replaced by autumn
* the alternative word, fall, coming from the old english fiaell or feallen and the old norse fall, means to "fall from a height" and also is related to phrases like "fall of a leaf" and "fall of the year"
* in poetry, autumn is often associated with melancholia (as in Yeats's poem the wild swans at coole and Keats's to autumn)
* since 1997, Autumn is one of the top 100 names for girls in the united states
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.)
dear little girl with your head in the clouds keep laughing, don’t cry keep dreaming, don’t stop dear little girl with your armful of books ...