alomes

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English almesse, from Old English ælmesse, from Proto-West Germanic *alemōsinā, a borrowing from Vulgar Latin *alemosyna. Can be seen as *aolmes, compare *míolnach and milonach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːɫmz/

Noun

alomes

1. alms

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22