dream

a tribe, people, Irish dream, Early Irish dremm; from dream, bundle, handful, manipulus, Breton dramm, a sheaf, *dregsmo-; Greek $$Gdrágma, a handful, $$Gdrássomai; Church Slavonic drazhaiti, grasps; Sanskrit darh, make fast, Indo-European dergho-, fasten. Hence dreamsgal, a heterogeneous mass. dreg: dreng, tramp? Cf. drong.