different between elm vs yelm

English

Etymology

From Old English elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz (compare dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, Norwegian and Swedish alm), from Proto-Indo-European *h?élem 'mountain elm' (compare Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?lm, IPA^(key): /?lm/
• Rhymes: -?lm

Noun

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• Limoges
• Limousin
• limousin
• limousine

Translations

See also

• keyaki, kiaki
• zelkova

Further reading

• elm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic ?????? (?ilm).

Noun

elm (definite accusative elmi, plural elml?r)

1. science

Declension

Related terms

• ?hli-elm

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin helmus, elmus, attested from the 13th century.

Noun

elm m (plural elms)

1. helmet

Related terms

• elmet

References

Further reading

• “elm” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lm/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /???l?m/

Noun

elm (plural elms)

1. elm

English

Etymology

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Noun

yelm (plural yelms)

1. (dialect) A bundle of straw for thatching.
   • 1952, Louis Francis Salzman, Building in England, p. 224:

     The thatcher then laid the 'yelms' , or bunches of drawn straw, on the laths, beginning at the eaves and working up towards the ridge.

Verb

yelm (third-person singular simple present yelms, present participle yelming, simple past and past participle yelmed)

1. (dialect) To prepare straw for use as thatch.
   • 1952, Louis Francis Salzman, Building in England, p. 224:

     The preparation of straw for thatch, which was known as 'yelming' , consisted in damping it and 'drawing' it with a thatching-fork, or great comb, so as to get the straws parallel.

Anagrams

• Emly, Lyme, elmy, lyme, myel-, ylem