jerm

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *erma. Compare Lithuanian ermas (monster), Latvian erms (wonderful apparition),[1] 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