Noun: sweven
| Singular | sweven |
| Plural | swevens |
Sample Sentences
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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 [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:]
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[The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare. [1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:]
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The Golden Legend
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And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?
Nouns inflected like sweven
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
sweven', Old English Nouns '
swefn', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
søvn', Faroese Nouns '
svøvnur', Icelandic Nouns '
svefn', Swedish Nouns '
sömn', Latin Nouns '
somnus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὕπνος'.
Verbs referencing "sweven"
English Nouns
dream, Old Norse Nouns
svefn, Greek Nouns
ύπνος, Danish Nouns
søvn.