dwalm

== English == === Alternative forms === dwaum === Etymology === From Old English dwolma (“confusion”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *dwalaz (“confused, stunned”). === Noun === dwalm (plural dwalms) (Scotland) A swoon; a sudden sickness. === Verb === dwalm (third-person singular simple present dwalms, present participle dwalming, simple past and past participle dwalmed) (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 benumbment, bemusement, confusion ==== Declension ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “DWOLMA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.