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Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin psalmus; the initial p- was probably silent except for in careful, learned speech.
Pronunciation
Noun
psealm m
- psalm
Declension
Declension of psealm (strong a-stem)
Descendants
- Middle English: salm, psalm, psalme, psame, salme, saulm, saume, spalme, sallme, sealm, selm (Early Middle English)
Further reading
- Monika Opalińska (2018 January) “'Hearing the inaudible'. On scribal representations of phonological categories in medieval English verse”, in Bartomiej Czaplicki, Beata Łukaszewicz, Monika Opalińska, editors, Phonology, Fieldwork, Generalizations, Peter Lang, pages 169-184.