swevenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈswɛvən/

名詞

sweven (plural swevens)

1. (archaic) A dream.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:

     The kynge with the honderd knyghtes mette a wonder dreme two nyghtes a fore the bataille / that ther blewe a grete wynde & blewe doun her castels and her townes / and after that cam a water and bare hit all awey / Alle that herd of the sweuen said / it was a token of grete batayll

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:

     [The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.

2. (archaic) A vision.
   • The Golden Legend

     And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?

関連する語

• sweb

アナグラム

• venews

語源 1

From 古期英語 swefn, from Proto-West Germanic *swefn, from Proto-Germanic *swefnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos. Some forms influenced by Old Norse söfn, an alternative form of svefn.

別の表記

• swevyn, swevon, swevene, swevne, swheven, squeven, sueven, seven, swene
• (Early ME) swefen, suefen, sweoven

発音

• IPA: /ˈswɛvən/, /ˈswɛːvən/

名詞

sweven (plural swevenes)

1. dream (especially a prophetic one)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Dedis of Apoſtlis 2:17, page 91v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ it ſchal be in þe laſte daies þe loꝛd ſeiþ · Y ſchal helde out my ſpirit on ech fleiſch · ⁊ ȝoure ſones and ȝoure douȝtris ſchulen p[ꝛo]pheſie ⁊ ȝoure ȝonge men ſchulen ſe viſioūs. ⁊ ȝoure eldris ſchulen dꝛeme ſweuenes

     "And it'll be in the last days, (when) the Lord says: "I'll hold out my Spirit on all the people; your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams […]

2. (waking) vision, premonition

同意語

• drem

関連する語

• swevenen
• swevenyng

派生した語

• English: sweven
• Scots: sweven, swevyn

参照

• “swē̆ven, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 December 2018.

語源 2

From 古期英語 swefan, from Proto-West Germanic *swefan, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną.

発音

• IPA: /ˈswɛːvən/

動詞

sweven

1. to put to sleep
2. (figuratively) to become calm (of the sea)

Conjugation

派生語

• asweved
• isweven

参照

• “swēven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.