köken: Inherited from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. By surface analysis, cauque + mar. Compare Walloon tchôcmwår. * First element from Old French cauche, from the verb chauchier (“to press”), from Latin calcare (“to trample, tread on”), from calx (“heel”), of uncertain origin. * Second element from Frankish *marā (“evil spirit”), from Proto-West Germanic *marā, from…
to dream (something) or about [with بِ (bi)] (something) while asleep · to muse, reflect, or meditate on [with بِ (bi)]; to vision, to image · to experience the first seminal ejaculation
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köken: Akin to Aramaic חֶלְמָא (ḥelmā), Classical Syriac ܚܠܡܐ (ḥelmā), Hebrew חֲלוֹם (ḥalóm), Amharic ሕልም (ḥəlm), Ugaritic 𐎈𐎍𐎎 (ḥlm). For the significations of the root in Arabic, compare م ن ي (m n y), whence أُمْنِيَة (ʔumniya, “a wish”) and مَنِيّ (maniyy, “a fluid considered conceptive; semen”).
köken: From Middle Dutch nachtmerie, nachtmere, likened to merrie (“female horse”) through folk etymology; the actual formation is from nachtmare. Equivalent to nacht + mare.
köken: Via Ancient Greek ἐφιάλτης (ephiáltēs) (compare Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs)) from Ancient Greek ἐπιάλλω (epiállō), Attic Greek ἐφιάλλω (ephiállō, “send to, throw upon”).
köken: painaa (“to press”) + -jainen – originally, painajainen was a demon that sat on a sleeping person's chest, pressing it down and thus causing bad dreams. Compare Karelian painajaini.