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jerm

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *erma. Compare Lithuanian ermas (“monster”), Latvian erms (“wonderful apparition”),[1] and also Old English gyrman, dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”).

Noun edit

jerm m

  1. delirium, absent mindedness

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jerm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 158
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