hymlice

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. Liberman compares Proto-Slavic *čemerъ (“false hellebore”), also used to describe venom or poison caused by this plant, from Proto-Indo-European *kemer-. The closest Germanic cognate is German Low German Hemer, Hemern and German Hemere (“hellebore”).[1][2] More at hymlic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxym.li.ke/, [ˈhym.li.ke], /ˈxym.liː.ke/, [ˈhym.liː.ke]

Noun

hymlice or hymlīce f

  1. synonym of hymlic

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

singular plural
nominative hymlice hymlican
accusative hymlican hymlican
genitive hymlican hymlicena
dative hymlican hymlicum

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “558”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 558
  2. ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press., p. 105
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