dwalm

English

Alternative forms

• dwaum

Etymology

From Old English dwolma (“confusion”).

Noun

dwalm (plural dwalms)

1. (Scotland) A swoon; a sudden sickness.

Verb

dwalm (third-person singular simple present dwalms, present participle dwalming, simple past and past participle dwalmed)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To fail in health.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From or related to Proto-Germanic *dwalaz (“confused, stunned”). Cognate with Old English dwolma.

Noun

dwalm m

1. benumbment, bemusement, confusion

Declension

Declension of dwalm (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	dwalm	dwalmos
accusative	dwalm	dwalmos
genitive	dwalmes	dwalmō
dative	dwalme	dwalmum
instrumental	—	—

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “DWOLMA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.