chirm

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English chirmen (“to chirp, twitter”), from Old English ċirman (“to make a noise, cry out, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmijan (“to make a sound”).

The noun is from Middle English chirm (“the call of various birds; chirping”), from Old English ċirm, ċyrm, ċierm (“noise, cry, alarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, *karm, from Proto-Germanic *karmaz, *karmiz. Doublet of charm (“sound, voices; group, flock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

chirm (plural chirms)

  1. A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.

Verb

chirm (third-person singular simple present chirms, present participle chirming, simple past and past participle chirmed)

  1. (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
    • 1552, Richard Huloet, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Chyrme or chur, as byrdes do.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chirm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

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Etymology

Inherited from Old English ċierm, from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃirm/, /t͡ʃɛrm/, /t͡ʃurm/
  • (late) IPA(key): /t͡ʃarm/

Noun

chirm

  1. (rare) A chirp or tweet; an avian vocalisation.

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: chirm, churm; charm
  • Scots: chirm, churme

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