holm

See also: Holm and hõlm

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Alteration of hollin.

Noun

holm (plural holms)

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
  2. A common evergreen oak, of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
Derived terms

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)

  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

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

holm c (singular definite holmen, plural indefinite holme)

  1. a small island

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔlm

Noun

holm m (plural holmen, diminutive holmpje n)

  1. a small island

Old English

Etymology

From Old Norse holmr, also in Old Saxon, Frisian cognate. Root is Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“hill, rise”), equivalent to Latin culmen "peak", compare culminate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /holm/

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

Polish

holm

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xɔlm/
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Noun

Chemical element
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holm m inan

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

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxòːlm/, /ˈxóːlm/
  • Tonal orthography: họ́lm, họ̑lm

Noun

hólm m inan (genitive hólma, nominative plural hólmi)

  1. hill

Declension

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