See sweven on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I (in Middle English):",
"text": "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",
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"ref": "1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:",
"text": "[The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.",
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"text": "The Golden Legend\nAnd then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?"
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"english": "\"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 […]",
"ref": "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",
"text": "⁊ 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"
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*swep-",
"t": "to sleep"
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "nl",
"2": "suf",
"3": "",
"4": "drowsy"
},
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},
{
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"2": "swēb",
"3": "",
"4": "sleep"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "søvn",
"3": "",
"4": "sleep"
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},
{
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"2": "svefn",
"3": "",
"4": "sleep"
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"3": "",
"4": "sleep"
},
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},
{
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"2": "sömn",
"3": "",
"4": "sleep"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "somnus",
"3": "",
"4": "sleep, slumber, drowsiness"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"tr": "svápna"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "grc",
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},
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}
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"ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I (in Middle English):",
"text": "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",
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},
{
"ref": "1885, Sir Richard Burton, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:",
"text": "[The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare.",
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{
"text": "The Golden Legend\nAnd then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?"
}
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"(archaic) A vision."
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"to move back and forth"
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"glosses": [
"to wander"
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"glosses": [
"to float (on water)"
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"to float (through the air)"
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[
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[
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"be"
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"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
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}
],
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
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{
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{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "ine-pro",
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}
],
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"tags": [
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]
}
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
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"word": "swevenen"
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"examples": [
{
"english": "\"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 […]",
"ref": "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",
"text": "⁊ 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"
}
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{
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"ipa": "/ˈswɛvən/"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈswɛːvən/"
}
],
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"word": "drem"
},
{
"word": "swevyn"
},
{
"word": "swevon"
},
{
"word": "swevene"
},
{
"word": "swevne"
},
{
"word": "swheven"
},
{
"word": "squeven"
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{
"word": "sueven"
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{
"word": "seven"
},
{
"word": "swene"
},
{
"tags": [
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],
"word": "swefen"
},
{
"word": "suefen"
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{
"word": "sweoven"
}
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"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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{
"form": "weak",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "sweven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to sweven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "sweve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "sweve",
"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
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]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "swevest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "swevedest",
"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sweveth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sweved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sweve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "sweved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "sweve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sweven",
"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sweve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sweveden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "swevede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sweveth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sweve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "swevynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "swevende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sweved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ysweved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
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"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"glosses": [
"to put sb. to sleep"
],
"links": [
[
"sleep",
"sleep"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to become calm (of the sea)"
],
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[
"calm",
"calm"
]
],
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"(figuratively) to become calm (of the sea)"
],
"tags": [
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈswɛːvən/"
}
],
"word": "sweven"
}
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