Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (mountain elm). Cognates include Old English elm and Latin ulmus.

Noun

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almr m

  1. elm (tree and wood)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: álmur
  • Faroese: álmur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: alm; (dialectal) æłm, ålm’e, åm’e
  • Norwegian Bokmål: alm
  • Swedish: alm
  • Old Norse: elmi (collective)

References

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  • almr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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