drom
See also: dröm and drøm
Albanian
Etymology
From Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).
Noun
drom ?
- highway
Synonyms
- xhade
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch droom, from Proto-Germanic *þrumi, *dramjan, related to *þrumjaz (“disturbance, violence”). See also Old Saxon drom, Old English þrymm. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drɔm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: drom
- Rhymes: -ɔm
Noun
drom m (plural drommen)
- flock (of people), throng, crowd
Synonyms
- meute
Derived terms
- bijendrom
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “drom1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Cork) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠoumˠ/
- (Waterford) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠəumˠ/
Noun
drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)
- Alternative form of droim
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| drom | dhrom | ndrom |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From English drum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dʁom]
Noun
drom
- a membranophone
- a large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old English drēam (“joy, music, dream”), Old Frisian drām, Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.
Noun
drōm m
- joy, pleasure, ecstasy
- Drôm drohtines endi dagskîmon: Joy of the lord and daylight.
- music, song
- dream
- That he manno drôm ageƀen scolde: That he should give the men's dream.
Declension
Declension of drōm (masculine a-stem)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | drōm | drōmos |
| accusative | drōm | drōmos |
| genitive | drōmes | drōmō |
| dative | drōme | drōmum |
| instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
- Middle Low German: drōm
- Westphalian:
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum
- Lippisch: Draum
- Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem
- Westmünsterländisch: Droom
- Plautdietsch: Droom
- Westphalian:
Romani
Etymology
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).[1][2]
Noun
drom m (nominative plural droma)
- way,[1][3][4] road[1][3][4]
Descendants
- Caló: dron
References
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “drom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 77b
- Andrea Scala (2020), “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras; Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 101
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o drom, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 132ab
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “drom, ～a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, OCLC 1267332830, page 148a