gielm

Old English

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Alternative forms

ġylm, ġilm
ġelm (Anglian)^[1]

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *galmi,^[2] possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ji͜ylm/, [ji͜yɫm]

Noun

ġielm m

(rare) bunch of plant stems^[3]

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ġielm	ġielmas
accusative	ġielm	ġielmas
genitive	ġielmes	ġielma
dative	ġielme	ġielmum

Descendants

Middle English: yelm
- English: yelm, yealm

References

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

[1] Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gelm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[2] Rolf Brenner (December 1988) “The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Worterbuch”, in Anglo-Saxon England‎^[1], volume 17, →DOI, pages 5-13

[3] Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gilm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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