sweven

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*swep-“to sleep”
2. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*swépnos
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*swefną
4. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*swefn
5. Old English · inherited fromswefn“sleep, dream, vision”
6. Middle English · inherited fromsweven
7. English todaysweven

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”). 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”), Persian خواب (x(w)āb), Northern Kurdish xew, Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).

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