10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DWALM»
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A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, ...
Dinl, drml, in like way, implies a blow. ' “ DunIy-homed kye;" short or stumpy-
horned cows.' Wb. GI. Dwalm, sb. (pr. dwawm or dwam). A swoon, suspension of
the senses. A word which has its correlatives in all the languages of Gothic origin.
John Christopher Atkinson, 1868
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
DUALM, Dwalm, Dwaum, «. 1. A swoon, S. See S. But toil and heat so overpowr'd
her pith, That she grew tabetless, and swarft therewith : — At last the dwaum
yeed frae her bit and bit, And she begins to draw her limbs and sit. Ross's
Hclenore ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
\Vachter derives dwalm from Germ. dolen, dwal-en, stupere, stupidum esse. This
word has, indeed, the same ailinities with Donln, q. v. DUALMYNG, DWAUMING,
.r. 1. A swoon. —To the ground all mangit fell scho doun, And lay ane lang time ...
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Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for ...
Scots dwalm, at OED, s.). But note that OHG twalm and OE dwolma are
morphologically distinct, derived by Germanic abstractive suff1xes '-ma (strong)
and *-man (weak) respectively; see Friedrich Kluge, Nominaie
Stammhildungslehre der ...
Roberta Frank, Russell Gilbert Poole, Antonina Harbus, 2005
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A glossary of the Cleveland dialect
Dint, dunt, in like way, implies a blow. • M Dtm/y-horned kye ;" short or stumpy-
horned cows.' Wb. Gl. Dwalm, sb. (pr. dwawm or dwam). A swoon, suspension of
the senses. A word which has its correlatives in all the languages of Gothic origin.
John Christopher Atkinson, 1868
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The English dialect of Donegal: a glossary incorporating the ...
Ir.] Dwalm (Dwaam, Dw5m; Dwaaml, Dwaml ; Twaaml, Twaml), n. Also in forms
dwam, -le, dwaum, twamle. 1. A swoon, faint, sudden feeling of faintness (McD. L)
; a weak turn, sudden fit of sickness (H). Hence i. Dwamish, Dwamy, adj., feeling
...
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Giddy Old School: The Diary of a Swot 1948-1951
Miss Shearer apparently hasn't realised my tendency to lapse into a dwalm when
left standing all alone in vacant or in pensive — though more often in vacant —
mood. Anyway, that was us lost. I could have kicked myself Iwould have if my ...
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An etmological dictionary of the scottish language
To DUTE, DUTT, v. n. To dose, S. B. Belg. dutt-en, to set a-nodding. Dut, s. A
stupid person, S. B. Dan. doede, stupidus ; Belg. dutt-en, delirare. DWABLE,
DWEBLE.mft. Weak, flexible. Su. G. dubbel, double. Boss. DWALM, DWAUM, s. V
. Dualm ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
DWALM, DWAUM, s. V. Dualm. To- DWANG, v. a. I. To oppress with labour, S. B.
2. To bear, or draw, unequally, S. B. 3. To harass by ill-humour, S. B. Teut.
dwingh-en, domare, arctare. To Dwang, v. n. To toil, S. B. Morison. D Wang, s. A
rough ...
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A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Dwallino, s. Dwelling, South of S. " Dwalling, dwelling;" Gl. Siller Gun. It has been
justly observed, that the Scots almost always pronounce short e as broad a, as
twaU, for twelve, wall for well, wat for wet, whan for when, &c. OUALM, Dwalm, s.
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Letter of Recommendation: The Oxford English Dictionary
Dwalm, ''a swoon, a fainting-fit'' (Scottish); what happens after you knock back a dwale, I guess. Can be verb or substantive. Dwam, same as ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Our habitat: dwelling
The OED lists dwale “error; fraud; a soporific drink,” dwalm “confusion,” and dwelling “delay,” all hopelessly obsolete, though the verb dwalm ... «OUPblog, Jan 15»
The history of the word “qualm”
The groups—dwellan ~ dwalm ~ twalm and cwellan ~ qualm—are not related. But in scholarship some questions tend to live a dull, almost ... «OUPblog, Aug 14»
John Cage: Once more without feeling
For the gallery visitor, it becomes a trance, a daydream, a dwalm, for a while. But then there are times when you encounter pure frustration. «Independent, Jun 10»
