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jerm

Albanian

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Etymology

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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

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jerm m

  1. delirium, absent mindedness

References

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