almr
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Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). Cognates include Old English elm and Latin ulmus.
Noun[edit]
almr m
Declension[edit]
Declension of almr (strong a-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: álmur
- Faroese: álmur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: alm; (dialectal) æłm, ålm’e, åm’e
- Norwegian Bokmål: alm
- Swedish: alm
- ⇒ Old Norse: elmi (collective)
References[edit]
- “almr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press