köken: First attested in 1723. From álom (“dream”) + szuszék (“a container storing grains or flour”). Folk speech often uses containers in compound words to express a negative quality. Compare méregzsák (“hothead”), szentfazék (“God botherer”), szeszkazán (“drunkard”).
aile: álomszuszékság
Te álomszuszék ébredj, / Hasadra süt a nap, / Nem hallod, nem hallod / A víg kakukkokat, / Kakukk, szól már a fák alatt.
köken: From svefn (“sleep”) + purka (“a miserable or a sleepy person”). The noun purka is a rare word which has quite a few other meanings in Icelandic such as “something of small height” (compare the Danish purk (“a small lad”) or the dialectal Swedish purka (“a short and chubby woman; sow; miser”)). The oldest written example from the Orðabók Háskólans ("the University Dictionary") of the word…