elm

See also Elm

English

Wikipedia

Ulmus minor, an elm.

Etymology

From Old English elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz (compare dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, Swedish alm), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem 'mountain elm' (compare Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕlm, IPA: /ɛlm/, X-SAMPA: /elm/
• Rhymes: -ɛlm

Noun

elm (plural elms)

1. a tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers
2. (usually attributive) wood from an elm tree

Derived terms

• Caucasian elm
• Chinese elm
• Dutch elm disease
• Japanese elm
• Manchurian elm

• Northern elm
• Purple elm
• Siberian elm
• Southern elm

Translations

tree of genus Ulmus

• Albanian: vidh m
• Armenian: թեղի (hy) (t'eġi)
• Asturian: llamera (ast) f
• Bulgarian: бряст (bg) (brjast) m
• Catalan: om m, olm (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏓᏩᏥᎳ (chr) (dawatsila), ᏧᏩᏙᎾ (chr) (tsuwadona)
• Cheyenne: homenó'e
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榆木 (cmn) (yúmù)

• Czech: jilm (cs)
• Danish: elm (da) c, elmetræ (da) n
• Dutch: olm (nl) m, iep (nl) m
• Esperanto: ulmo (eo)
• Estonian: jalakas (et)
• Finnish: jalava (fi) (1,2)
• French: orme (fr) m
• Galician: umeiro (gl) m, olmo (gl) m
• German: Ulme (de) f
• Greek: λεύκα (el) (léfka) f
• Hebrew: בוקיצה f, אולמוס m

• Hungarian: szil (hu)
• Icelandic: álmur (is) m
• Italian: olmo (it) m
• Japanese: 楡 (ja) (にれ, nire), ニレ (ja) (nire)
• Korean: 느릅나무 (ko) (neureumnamu)
• Kurdish: bizî (ku) f
• Latin: ulmus (la)
• Latvian: goba (lv) f
• Lithuanian: guoba (lt) f
• Macedonian: брест (mk) (brest) m
• Malay: elm (ms)
• Polish: wiąz (pl) m
• Portuguese: ulmeiro (pt) m, olmo (pt) m
• Romanian: ulm (ro) m
• Russian: вяз (ru) (vjaz) m, ильм (ru) (ilʹm) m
• Scottish Gaelic: ailm (gd) f, leamhan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: brest (sh) m
• Slovene: brest (sl) m
• Spanish: olmo (es) m
• Swedish: alm (sv)
• Welsh: llwyfen f

See also

• keyaki, kiaki
• zelkova

Anagrams

• LEM, L.E.M.
• mel, Mel
• MLE

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Catalan

Noun

elm m (plural elms)

1. Helmet.