jerm

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *erma. Compare Lithuanian ermas (monster), Latvian erms (wonderful apparition), and also Old English gyrman, dialectal Danish jærme (to lament, shriek), dialectal Norwegian jerme (to bleat), dialectal Swedish jarma (to lament, shriek), Icelandic jarma (to whine, complain, bleat).

Noun

jerm m

  1. delirium, absent mindedness

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “jerm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 158