holm

See also: Holm and hõlm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həʊm/
• IPA^(key): /hoʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm
• Homophone: home

Etymology 1

Alteration of hollin.

Noun

holm (plural holms)

1. (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.

2. A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.

Derived terms

• holming

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

1. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
2. (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.
3. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.

Anagrams

• LMHO, Mohl

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.

Noun

holm c (singular definite holmen, plural indefinite holme)

1. a small island

Inflection

Declension of holm

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	holm	holmen	holme	holmene
genitive	holms	holmens	holmes	holmenes

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“hill, rise”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlm

Noun

holm m (plural holmen, diminutive holmpje n)

1. a small island

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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

• IPA^(key): /xolm/, [hoɫm]

Noun

holm m (nominative plural holmas)

1. (poetic) ocean, sea, waters

   Ða wæs heofonweardes gast ofer holm boren.

   The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Declension

Declension of holm (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	holm	holmas
accusative	holm	holmas
genitive	holmes	holma
dative	holme	holmum

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Polish

holm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɔlm/

• Audio:

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Noun

Chemical element
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holm m inan

1. holmium (chemical element, Ho, atomic number 67)

Declension

Declension of holm

	singular
nominative	holm
genitive	holmu
dative	holmowi
accusative	holm
instrumental	holmem
locative	holmie
vocative	holmie

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xòːlm/, /xóːlm/

Noun

họ̄lm m inan

1. hill

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
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

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Swedish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. Cognate with Old Norse holmr, Icelandic hólmur, Old Church Slavonic хлъмъ (xlŭmŭ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔlˈmɛ/

Noun

holm n

1. islet (especially nearby river or mainland)

Declension

Declension of holm
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	holm	holmen	holmar	holmarna
Genitive	holms	holmens	holmars	holmarnas

Derived terms

• Stockholm
• Holm
• Holmberg
• Lindholm

References

• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)