earm

• arm — Anglian

• IPA^(key): /æ͜ɑrm/, [æ͜ɑrˠm]

From Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mos (“joint”).

Cognate with Old Frisian arm, Old Saxon arm, Dutch arm, Old High German arm (German Arm), Old Norse armr (Swedish arm), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 (arms). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Old Church Slavonic рамо (ramo) (Bulgarian ра́мо (rámo, “shoulder”)), Latin armus.

earm m

2. arm

Strong a-stem:

• earmsċanca

• Middle English: arm
  • English: arm
  • Scots: airm
  • Yola: arrm

From Proto-Germanic *armaz, further etymology uncertain.

Cognate with Old Frisian erm, Old Saxon arm, Dutch arm, Old High German arm (German arm), Old Norse armr (Danish and Swedish arm), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 (arms).

earm

2. poor, miserable
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Ðonne sorg ond slǣp · somod ætgædre
     earmne ānhogan · oft ġebindað,

     Then sorrow and sleep together at once
     oft bind the poor loner,

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.

     After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.

• earmċeariġ
• earmian
• earmlīċ

• Middle English: arm
  • English: arm
  • Scots: arm

From Old Frisian erm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ermos, *h₂ŕ̥mos.

• IPA^(key): /jɛrm/, /ɪə̯rm/

earm c (plural earms or earmen, diminutive earmke)

2. arm

• earmtakke

• “earm (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

From Old Frisian *arm, erm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erm.

earm

2. poor

• “earm (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011