almr
Appearance
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). Cognates include Old English elm and Latin ulmus.
Noun
[edit]almr m
Declension
[edit] Declension of almr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: álmur
- Faroese: álmur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: alm; (dialectal) æłm, ålm’e, åm’e
- Norwegian Bokmål: alm
- Swedish: alm
- ⇒ Old Norse: elmi (collective)
References
[edit]- “almr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press