shalm
English
Noun
shalm (plural shalms)
- Obsolete form of shawm.
- 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
- These few words were continually repeated, and to describe the sound, it was as if you heard forest-horns and shalms sounded together from a far distance.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Paris flings up her windows, claps hands, as the Avengers, with their shrilling drums and shalms tramp by....
- 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
References
- “shalm” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Anagrams
Irish
Noun
shalm m
- Lenited form of salm.
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| salm | shalm after an, tsalm |
not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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