elm

elm

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eleme.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Eleme terms

• ellum (pronunciation spelling)

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”).

• enPR: ĕlm, IPA^(key): /ɛlm/
• (dialectal) enPR: ĕləm, IPA^(key): /ˈɛləm/ (see ellum)

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• Rhymes: -ɛlm

elm (countable and uncountable, plural elms)

1. (countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.

   Synonym: (dialectal) elven

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

   • 1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 67:

     The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the level plain of the Pewsey Vale.

2. (uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.

• keyaki, kiaki
• zelkova

• elm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of elm species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of elm cultivars, hybrids and hybrid cultivars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “* elm”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• mel, Lem, LEM, EML, MLE, L.E.M., -mel-, MEL, Mel

Ultimately from Arabic عِلْم (ʕilm).

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elm (definite accusative elmi, plural elmlər)

1. science

• əhli-elm

From Latin helmus, elmus. First attested in the 13th century.^[1]

elm m (plural elms)

1. helmet
2. Semicassis saburon (helmet snail found in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic)

• elmet

• “elm”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “elm” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “elm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• alme, elme, helm, ulme

Inherited from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). For the variant ulme, compare Old English ulmtrēow.

• IPA^(key): /ɛlm/

elm (plural elmes)

1. elm tree

• English: elm (dialectal ellum)
• Scots: elm

• “elm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”).

• IPA^(key): /elm/, [eɫm]

elm m

1. elm tree

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: elm, alme, elme, helm, ulme
  • English: elm (dialectal ellum)
  • Scots: elm

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlm/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈɛˌlʌm/

elm (plural elms)

1. elm