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Old English
Etymology
in (“in”) + wyrm (“worm”)
Pronunciation
Noun
inwyrm m
- an internal or intestinal worm
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume I, page 4
Herba arniglosa, þæt ys, weġbræd...wiþ inwyrmas- The herb arniglosa, that is, waybread... against intestinal worms
Declension
Declension of inwyrm (strong i-stem)