Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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For earlier *ġielm, from Proto-West Germanic *galmi,[2] possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (to flourish).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ġilm m

  1. (rare) bunch of plant stems[3]

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: yelm
    • English: yelm, yealm

References

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  1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gelm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ Rolf Brenner (1988 December) “The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Worterbuch”, in Anglo-Saxon England[2], volume 17, →DOI, pages 5-13
  3. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gilm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.