dwalm
English
Alternative forms
- dwaum
Etymology
Old English dwolma (“confusion”)
Noun
dwalm (plural dwalms)
- (Scotland) A swoon; a sudden sickness.
Verb
dwalm (third-person singular simple present dwalms, present participle dwalming, simple past and past participle dwalmed)
- (Scotland, intransitive) To fail in health.
Old Saxon
Etymology
From or related to Proto-Germanic *dwalaz (“confused, stunned”).[1] Cognate with Old English dwolma.
Noun
dwalm m
- benumbment, bemusement, confusion
Declension
Declension of dwalm (masculine a-stem)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dwalm | dwalmos |
| accusative | dwalm | dwalmos |
| genitive | dwalmes | dwalmō |
| dative | dwalme | dwalmum |
| instrumental | — | — |
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “DWOLMA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 261-267