ermr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *armijō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erm-i(e)h₂-. See *armaz.

Noun

ermr f (genitive ermar, dative ermi, plural ermar)

1. sleeve

Declension

  Declension of ermr (strong ijō-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ermr	ermrin	ermar	ermarnar
accusative	ermi	ermina	ermar	ermarnar
dative	ermi	erminni	ermum	ermunum
genitive	ermar	ermarinnar	erma	ermanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: ermi f
• Faroese: erma f, ermi f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erm f; (dialectal) ørm f
• Dalian: ärmi f
• Swedish: ärm c
• Danish: ærme n
  • Norwegian Bokmål: erme n
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: erme n
• Gutnish: ärm m or f, ärme n

References

• “ermr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Anagrams

• merr