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From Middle English armthe, earmthe, from Old English iermþu, from Proto-West Germanic *armiþu (poverty), from *arm (poor, arm). Equivalent to arm (poor) +‎ -th.

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armth (uncountable)

  1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) Poverty; want; wretchedness; misery; calamity.

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