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Old English
Etymology
For earlier *ġielm, from Proto-West Germanic *galmi,[2] possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ġilm m
- (rare) bunch of plant stems[3]
Declension
Strong i-stem:
Descendants
References
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gelm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Rolf Brenner (1988 December) “The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Worterbuch”, in Anglo-Saxon England, volume 17, →DOI, pages 5-13
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gilm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.