different between barm vs yarm
barm
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear”). Cognate with German Barm (“lap; bosom”).
Noun
barm (plural barms)
- (obsolete outside dialects) Bosom, lap.
Etymology 2
From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *berm? (“yeast; barm”); related to the dialectal Low German Bärm (“yeast”), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish bairín breac, a type of bread.
Noun
barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)
- Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
- 1590?, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II. scene i. line 25:
- ...and sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 620:
- In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 65:
- And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.
- 1590?, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II. scene i. line 25:
- A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)
- To spurge; foam
See also
Anagrams
- AMBR, Bram
Albanian
Alternative forms
- barmë
Etymology
A masculine variant of barmë
Noun
barm m
- bast
Related terms
- bardhë
- berk
References
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz (“warm”). Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.
Adjective
barm (comparative bérmor, superlative dar bérmorste)
- (Luserna, Sette Comuni) warm, hot
Declension
References
- “barm” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
- “barm” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).
Noun
barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)
- bosom
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse barmr (“rim”).
Noun
barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)
- (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail
Inflection
Gothic
Romanization
barm
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Icelandic
Noun
barm
- indefinite accusative singular of barmur
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bearm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.
Alternative forms
- berm, berme, barme, bearm
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /barm/, /b?rm/
Noun
barm (plural barmes)
- The lap (The portion of one's legs that lies flat while sitting)
- Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- chest, torso, abdomen
- Late 14th century: [...] kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- belly, stomach
- (rare) A flat surface that serves as a resting-place.
Descendants
- English: barm
- Scots: berme, berm, barm
References
- “barm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-06.
Etymology 2
From Old English beorma.
Noun
barm
- Alternative form of berme (“yeast”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse baðmr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?rm/
Noun
barm m (definite singular barmen, indefinite plural barmar, definite plural barmane)
- a bosom
References
- “barm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).
Noun
barm c
- bosom
Declension
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yarm
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English ?armen, ?ermen, from Old English gyrman, ?ierman (“to cry, mourn, cry out, roar, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *germijan? (“to bleat”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yirm (“to whine, wail”), dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”). Compare Albanian jerm (“to rave, be delirious”).
Verb
yarm (third-person singular simple present yarms, present participle yarming, simple past and past participle yarmed)
- (Britain dialectal) To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
- (Britain dialectal) To scold; grumble.
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?arm, from ?armen.
Noun
yarm (plural yarms)
- (Britain dialectal) An outcry; noise.
Anagrams
- ARMY, Army, Mary, Mayr, Myra, army, mary
Tocharian B
Noun
yarm
- measure, measurement
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