Etymology

dreamware

dream·ware
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Today it means: Things dreamed of; fantasies, fictions. Full definition →

Middle English ware ← Old English waru ← Proto-West Germanic *waru
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰrewgʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*draumaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*draum
  4. Old Englishdrēam
  5. Middle Englishdrem
  6. Englishdream
  7. Proto-Germanic*warō
  8. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  9. Old Englishwaru
  10. Middle Englishware
  11. English todaydreamware

From dream (noun) + -ware (suffix forming nouns denoting items of a particular kind or for a particular use, and specific classes of computer software).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.