sweven

From Middle English sweven, from Old English 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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɛvən/

sweven (plural swevens)

1. (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

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   • 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.

2. (archaic) A vision.
   • The Golden Legend

     And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?

• sweb

• venews

From Old Dutch sweven, from Proto-Germanic *swibāną.

swēven

1. to move back and forth
2. to wander
3. to float (on water)
4. to float (through the air)
5. to remain, to be (in a particular state)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: zweven
• Limburgish: zwaeve, zweive, zwieëve

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “sweven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old English 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɛvən/, /ˈswɛːvən/

sweven (plural swevenes)

1. dream (especially a prophetic one)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 2:17, page 91v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſeiþ · Y ſchal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]pheſie ⁊ 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 […]

2. (waking) vision, premonition

• drem

• swevenen
• swevenyng

• English: sweven
• Scots: sweven, swevyn

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

From Old English swefan, from Proto-West Germanic *swefan, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɛːvən/

sweven

1. to put to sleep
2. (figuratively) to become calm (of the sea)

• asweved
• isweven

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