different between erm vs elm

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m/ enPR: ûrm
• Rhymes: -?m

Used in non-rhotic dialects. Compare um.

Interjection

erm

1. (Britain) Used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty; um, umm.

   She was going to, erm... the salon, I think.

2. (Britain) Used to express embarrassment or subtle disagreement.

   Erm, I don't think that was supposed to happen.

   - Bob would never say something like that!
   - Erm, he just did.

Translations

Anagrams

• -mer, EMR, MER, MRE, R.E.M., REM, Rem, mer, mer-, rem, ?-mer

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin er?mus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (erêmos).

Adjective

erm (feminine erma, masculine plural erms, feminine plural ermes)

1. deserted, abandoned
2. uncultivated (not cultivated by agricultural methods)

Noun

erm m (plural erms)

1. wasteland

Further reading

• “erm” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “erm” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “erm” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “erm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• *arm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?erm/, [?ærm]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *arm. Cognates include Old English earm and Old Saxon arm.

Noun

erm m

2. (anatomy) arm

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: iarem

  Halligen: eerm

  Heligoland: iaarem

  Mooring: ärm

• Saterland Frisian: ierm
• West Frisian: earm

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *arm. Cognates include Old English earm and Old Saxon *arm.

Adjective

erm

2. poor

Descendants

• West Frisian: earm

References

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