berme

berme (plural bermes)

1. Alternative spelling of berm.

• EBMer, Ember, breme, ember

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• IPA^(key): /berme/ [ber.me]
• Rhymes: -erme, -e
• Hyphenation: ber‧me

berme inan or anim

1. guarantor
2. guarantee, bail

• “berme”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “berme”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• bèrme (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German werme, from Old High German warmī, equivalent to barm +‎ -e. Cognate with German Wärme.

berme m

1. (Luserna) warmth

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛrmɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛrmɛ
• Hyphenation: ber‧me

berme

1. first-person plural imperative of brát

• barme (obsolete)

From Dutch berm.

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berme f (plural bermes)

1. berm

• → Catalan: berma
• → English: berm
• → German: Berme
• → Portuguese: berma
• → Spanish: berma

• “berme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *bermō.

• berm
• beorme (early south West Midlands)
• barm, barme (Late Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛrm(ə)/, /ˈbarm(ə)/

berme (uncountable)

1. The head of foam present in beer that is aging.
2. barm (froth used for fermented and leavened food)
3. yeast (fungus that produces barm)
4. (rare) The head of foam present in a glass of beer.

• English: barm
• Scots: barm, berme, barme, baurm
• Yola: barrm

• “berm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

berme

1. alternative form of barme (dative of barm)