Re: Dream and rève

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> >On satisfait mieux à
> > l'une et à l'autre en s'adressant au danois roeuve, angl. to rove,
> > errer, vagabonder, faire le bandit, d'où, en anglais, avoir le
> > délire, et, en français, faire un rêve.
>
> Must be Danish røve "rob". But that should be related to German
> rauben id.

OED also has an entry "rave" as a dialectal form of "rove": "App. of
Scand. origin: cf. Icel. ráfa in same sense (not recorded in ON.)"

Norman loan-word? any eveidence for such a thing in French?