Etymology

dreamt

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Today it means: Imagined or only extant in a dream or dreams. Full definition →

English dream ← Middle English drem ← Old English drēam
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰrewgʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*draumaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*draum
  4. Old Englishdrēam
  5. Middle Englishdrem
  6. Englishdream
  7. English todaydreamt

From dream + -t.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.