Etymograph

English

dreamware

Dreamware comes from Proto-Germanic *warō ‘a good, merchandise, ware’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*warō‘a good, merchandise, ware’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*warureconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150waru
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1901dreamware

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*warō‘a good, merchandise, ware’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*warureconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150waru
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1901dreamware

Earliest quotation: 1901, Roscelyn Bayard Lee, The Story of a Rivalry: “No use talking, I'm an unpractical, useless dealer in…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wer- ‘to heed, watch, guard, protect’

guard, wear, con, garage, regard, ward, worm, verge, optic, warn, weir, garrison, panorama, beware, reverence, vermin, revere, wry, vermilion, prosaic, guaranty, milliner, diorama, vermicelli, vermeil, vermiculite, varmint, 64 more

through Old English waru

malware, firmware, freeware, shareware, 22 more

Today it means

noun Things dreamed of; fantasies, fictions.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *warō / dreamware

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