Thursday, May 29, 2008

Archaic Vision

sweven

(SWEV-uhn) noun Dream; vision. [From Old English swefn (sleep, dream, vision).]

"[The queen] went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare." The Arabian Nights (translated by Richard Francis Burton); 1885.
Anu Garg, Wordsmith.org


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