salm

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See also: Salm and sal'm

English

Noun

salm (plural salms)

  1. Obsolete form of psalm.

References

Anagrams

Cornish

Pronunciation

  • (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key):
  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key):

Noun

salm m

  1. A psalm

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish salm, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós).

Pronunciation

Noun

salm m (genitive singular sailm, nominative plural sailm)

  1. psalm

Declension

Declension of salm

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative salm sailm
Vocative a shailm a shalma
Genitive sailm salm
Dative salm sailm

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an salm na sailm
Genitive an tsailm na salm
Dative leis an salm

don salm

leis na sailm

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
salm shalm
after an, tsalm 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old English psealm, from Late Latin psalmus. Some forms are influenced by Old French salme, saume.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /salm/, (after French) /ˈsalm(ə)/, /ˈsau̯m(ə)/

Noun

salm (plural salmes)

  1. A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)
    Hypernym: ymne
  2. (by extension) A Christian hymn or creed.

Descendants

  • English: psalm
  • Scots: saum, sawm
  • → Middle Welsh: salm

References

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

salm m

  1. psalm

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Noun

salm f (genitive singular sailm, plural sailm)

  1. psalm

Volapük

Pronunciation

Noun

salm (nominative plural salms)

  1. (male or female) salmon (fish)

Declension

declension of salm
singular plural
nominative salm salms
genitive salma salmas
dative salme salmes
accusative salmi salmis
vocative 1 o salm! o salms!
predicative 2 salmu salmus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

Terms derived from salm "salmon"

See also

See also

Welsh

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Welsh salm, from Middle English salm, from Latin psalmus.

Pronunciation

Noun

salm f (plural salmau, not mutable)

  1. psalm

Derived terms

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “salm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

salm c (plural salmen, diminutive salmke)

  1. salmon

Further reading

  • “salm”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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