gilm

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

For earlier *ġielm, from Proto-West Germanic *galmi[2].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jilm/, [jiɫm]

Noun

ġilm m

  1. (rare) bunch of plant stems[3]

Declension
Declension of gilm (strong i-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative ġilm ġilmas
accusative ġilm ġilmas
genitive ġilmes ġilma
dative ġilme ġilmum

Descendants
  • Middle English: yelm
    • English: yelm, yealm

References
  1. Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gelm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. Rolf Brenner (December 1988), “The Old Frisian component in Holthausen's Altenglisches etymologisches Worterbuch”, in Anglo-Saxon England‎, volume 17, DOI:10.1017/S0263675100003987, page 5-13
  3. Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gilm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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