galm
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /χalm/
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣɑlm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: galm
- Rhymes: -ɑlm
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch galm.
Noun
galm m (plural galmen, diminutive galmpje n)
- echo, reverberation
- backtalk
- (Brabantian, spoken) En uwe galm kunt ge voor u eigen houden! - Keep your backtalk to yourself!
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *galmaz, whence also Old High German galm, modern Dutch galm. Also related to galan and galpon, Old English giellan and galdor, modern Dutch gillen.
Declension
Declension of galm (masculine a-stem)
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | galm | galmos |
accusative | galm | galmos |
genitive | galmes | galmō |
dative | galme | galmum |
instrumental | — | — |
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡalm/
- (Terschelling) IPA(key): /ɡɔlm/
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Frisian *galm, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *galmaz.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Frisian *gelm, from Proto-West Germanic *galmi; Old Frisian /el/ regularly becomes /al/ in Schiermonnikoog.[1]
References
- Rolf Brenner (December 1988), “The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Worterbuch”, in Anglo-Saxon England, volume 17, DOI:, page 5-13
Further reading
- “galm”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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