gedwimor

• ġedwimer

ġe- +‎ dwimor (“magic, illusion”) (unrecorded except in compounds); see dwimor.

• IPA^(key): /jeˈdwi.mor/

ġedwimor n (nominative plural ġedwimor)

1. illusion
2. spectre, phantom
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Innocents"

     Hine ġedrehte singal slǣplēast, swā þæt hē þurhwacole niht būton slǣpe adrēah; and ġif hē hwōn hnappode, ðǣrrihte hine drehton nihtlīce ġedwimor, swā þæt him ðæs slǣpes ofþūhte.

     Constant sleeplessness afflicted him, so that he passed the whole night without sleep; and if he dozed a little, nightly phantoms immediately tormented him, so that he repented of his sleep.

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: dwimor, dweomer
  • English: dwimmer

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-dwimor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.