walm

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English weallan; compare waelm (“billow”).

Verb

walm (third-person singular simple present walms, present participle walming, simple past and past participle walmed)

1. (obsolete) To roll; to spout; to boil up.

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   • 1845(?), A view of Devonshire in 1630, with a Pedigree of most of its gentry, page 344:

     It serveth the inhabitants with fresh water walming out of springs, though itself be on all sides circumpassed about with the sea.

   • 1905, The Myths of Plato, page 442:

     […] a mighty huge hole or gulf all round, in manner of a hollow globe cut through the midst, exceeding deep and horrible to see to, full of much darkness, and the same not quiet and still, but turbulent and oftentimes boiling and walming upward, out of which there might be heard innumerable roarings and groanings of beasts, cries and wrawlings of an infinite number of children, […]

References

• “walm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch walm (“heat, glow, zeal”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaną (“to spring, well, bubble”). Compare Old English wilm (“cooking, boiling, ondulating movement”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑlm

Noun

walm m (plural walmen, diminutive walmpje n)

1. waft

Verb

walm

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of walmen
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of walmen

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “walm”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute