different between wormling vs wyrmling

English

From worm +? -ling. Compare Icelandic yrmlingur (“wormling”).

wormling (plural wormlings)

A little worm.
- 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes
  O dusty wormling! dar'st thou strive and stand / With Heav'ns high Monarch?
(by extension) Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
- 1797, Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms (1807):
  But I am a wormling, and not a man; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.

wyrm +? -ling

wyrmling (plural wyrmlings)

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