barm

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (lap; bosom), from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (lap; bosom), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (to bear). Cognate with German Barm (lap; bosom).

Noun[edit]

barm (plural barms)

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) bosom, lap.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (yeast; barm); related to the dialectal Low German Bärm (yeast), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish bairín breac, a type of bread.

Noun[edit]

barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)

  1. Foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread; yeast.
  2. A small, round, flat individual loaf or roll of bread.
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Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).

Verb[edit]

barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)

  1. To spurge; foam

See also[edit]

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Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A masculine variant of barmë[1]

Noun[edit]

barm m

  1. bast

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “barm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 18

Cimbrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz (warm). Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

Adjective[edit]

barm (comparative bérmor, superlative dar bérmorste)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) warm, hot
    Hòite machetz barm.It's hot today.

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References[edit]

  • “barm” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse baðmr (bosom).

Noun[edit]

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. bosom
Inflection[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse barmr (rim).

Noun[edit]

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail
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Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

barm

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

Icelandic[edit]

Noun[edit]

barm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English bearm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.

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Noun[edit]

barm (plural barmes)

  1. The lap (The portion of one's legs that lies flat while sitting)
    • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  2. chest, torso, abdomen
    • Late 14th century: [...] kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  3. belly, stomach
  4. (rare) A flat surface that serves as a resting-place.
Descendants[edit]
  • English: barm
  • Scots: berme, berm, barm
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

barm

  1. Alternative form of berme (yeast)

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse baðmr.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

barm m (definite singular barmen, indefinite plural barmar, definite plural barmane)

  1. a bosom

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish barmber, from Old Norse baðmr (bosom).

Noun[edit]

barm c

  1. bosom

Declension[edit]

Declension of barm 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative barm barmen barmar barmarna
Genitive barms barmens barmars barmarnas

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