Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Small island, islet. · An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. · Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names. · Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.
From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”). Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.
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- Root classification mention*kelH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionholmenm
- Inherited-form mentionholmang · wave, ocean, water, sea, islet
- Derivation mentionholmrnon
- Derivation mention*hulmazgem-pro · rising ground, hill, island
- Cognate mentionholmosx
- Cognate mentionholmgml
- Cognate mentionHolmde
- Cognate mentionholmdum
- Cognate mentionholmda
- Cognate mentionholmesv
- Cognate mentionholmenb
- Cognate mentionhólmuris
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