holm
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊm
- Homophone: home
Etymology 1
Alteration of hollin.
Noun
holm (plural holms)
- (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, chapter 1, in The Faerie Queen[1], page 1:
- The sailing pine; the cedar, proud and tall;
The vine-prop elm; the poplar, never dry;
The builder oak, sole king of forests all;
The aspen, good for staves; the cypress, funeral;
The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors
And poets sage; the fir, that weepeth still;
The willow, worn of forlorn paramours;
The yew, obedient to the binder's will;
The birch, for shafts; the sallow, for the mill;
The myrrh, sweet bleeding in the bitter wound;
The warlike beech; the ash, for nothing ill;
The fruitful olive, and the plantane round;
The carver holm; the maple, seldom inward sound.
- A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse holmi, holmr (“islet”), from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz, from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”). Cognate with Old English holm (“sea, ocean, wave”), Old Saxon holm, Old Danish hulm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Swedish holme,
Noun
holm (plural holms) Template:Wikipedia
- An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
- (dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire, Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
- Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.
Noun
holm c (singular definite holmen, plural indefinite holme)
- a small island
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“hill, rise”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔlm
Noun
holm m (plural holmen, diminutive holmpje n)
- a small island
Old English
Etymology
From Old Norse holmr. Cognate with Old Saxon holm (German Holm), Old Dutch holm (Dutch holm). The root is Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“hill, rise”), equivalent to Latin culmen (“peak”); compare culminate.
Pronunciation
Noun
holm m (nominative plural holmas)
- (poetic) ocean, sea, waters
- Ða wæs heofonweardes gast ofer holm boren.
- The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Declension
Polish
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Pronunciation
Noun
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holm m inan
- holmium (chemical element, Ho, atomic number 67)
Declension
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
họ̄lm m inan
Inflection
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | hólm | ||
gen. sing. | hólma | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
hólm | hólma | hólmi |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
hólma | hólmov | hólmov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
hólmu | hólmoma | hólmom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
hólm | hólma | hólme |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
hólmu | hólmih | hólmih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
hólmom | hólmoma | hólmi |
Swedish
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. Cognate with Old Norse holmr, Icelandic hólmur, Old Church Slavonic хлъмъ (xlŭmŭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
holm n
- islet (especially nearby river or mainland)
Declension
Declension of holm | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | holm | holmen | holmar | holmarna |
Genitive | holms | holmens | holmars | holmarnas |
Derived terms
References
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/əʊm
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