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Etymology 1

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From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (lap; bosom), from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (lap; bosom), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (to bear). Cognate with German Barm (lap; bosom).

Noun

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barm (plural barms) (obsolete outside dialects)

  1. bosom
  2. lap
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (yeast; barm); related to the dialectal Low German Bärm (yeast), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish bairín breac, a type of bread.

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barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)

  1. Foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread; yeast.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 25:
      [A]nd sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 620:
      In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. [], →OCLC:
      And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.
      Penguin 2006, p. 65
  2. A small, round, flat individual loaf or roll of bread.
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Etymology 3

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From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

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barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)

  1. To spurge; foam

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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A masculine variant of barmë[1]

Noun

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barm m

  1. bast
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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “barm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 18

Cimbrian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz (warm). Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

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barm (comparative bérmor, superlative dar bérmorste)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) warm, hot
    Hòite machetz barm.It's hot today.

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  • “barm” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse baðmr (bosom).

Noun

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barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. bosom
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse barmr (rim).

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barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail
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Gothic

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Romanization

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barm

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

Icelandic

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Noun

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barm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English bearm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.

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Noun

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barm (plural barmes)

  1. The lap (The portion of one's legs that lies flat while sitting)
    • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  2. chest, torso, abdomen
    • Late 14th century: [...] kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  3. belly, stomach
  4. (rare) A flat surface that serves as a resting-place.
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  • English: barm
  • Scots: berme, berm, barm
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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barm

  1. Alternative form of berme (yeast)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse baðmr.

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Noun

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barm m (definite singular barmen, indefinite plural barmar, definite plural barmane)

  1. a bosom

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish barmber, from Old Norse baðmr (bosom).

Noun

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barm c

  1. bosom

Declension

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Declension of barm 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative barm barmen barmar barmarna
Genitive barms barmens barmars barmarnas

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