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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ellum (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz , from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem 'mountain elm'.
See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: ĕlm, IPA(key): /ɛlm/
- (dialectal) enPR: ĕləm, IPA(key): /ˈɛləm/ (see ellum)
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlm
Noun[edit]
elm (countable and uncountable, plural elms)
- (countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
- Synonym: (dialectal) elven
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
- (uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.
Derived terms[edit]
- Caucasian elm
- Chinese elm
- Cornish elm
- Dutch elm
- Dutch elm disease
- elm beetle
- elm tree
- elm yellows
- elmen
- English elm
- European white elm
- field elm
- Great Elm (village)
- Huntingdon elm
- Japanese elm
- Manchurian elm
- Nine Elms
- northern elm
- purple elm
- red elm
- Scots elm
- September elm
- Siberian elm
- slippery elm
- soft elm
- southern elm
- Spanish elm
- Texas cedar elm
- Wheatley elm
- wych elm
- yoke elm
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Translations[edit]
tree of genus Ulmus
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Azerbaijani[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Arabic عِلْم (ʕilm).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
elm (definite accusative elmi, plural elmlər)
Declension[edit]
Declension of elm | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | elm |
elmlər | ||||||
definite accusative | elmi |
elmləri | ||||||
dative | elmə |
elmlərə | ||||||
locative | elmdə |
elmlərdə | ||||||
ablative | elmdən |
elmlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | elmin |
elmlərin |
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin helmus, elmus. First attested in the 13th century.[1]
Noun[edit]
elm m (plural elms)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “elm”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading[edit]
- “elm” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “elm” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “elm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Scots[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
elm (plural elms)
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