Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. · Wood from an elm tree.
From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionelmeenm
- Inherited-form mentionelmang
- Inherited-form mention*elmgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*elmazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*h₁élemine-pro · mountain elm
- Cognate mentionElmnds
- Cognate mentionIlmde
- Cognate mentionIlmede
- Cognate mentionalmsv
- Cognate mentionleamhga
- Cognate mentionulmusla
- Cognate mentionulzësq · maple
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