psealm

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Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin psalmus; the initial p- was probably silent except for in careful, learned speech.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sæ͜ɑlm/, [sæ͜ɑɫm]

Noun

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psealm m

  1. psalm

Declension

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • 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.