"yelm" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /jɛlm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yealm.wav [Southern-England] Forms: yelms [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlm Etymology: From Middle English yelm, from Old English ġilm, ġelm (“handful”), from Proto-West Germanic *galmi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|yelm}} Middle English yelm, {{inh|en|ang|ġilm}} Old English ġilm, {{m|ang|ġelm|t=handful}} ġelm (“handful”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*galmi}} Proto-West Germanic *galmi, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰelh₃-|t=to flourish}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} yelm (plural yelms)
  1. (dialect) A bundle of straw for thatching. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-yelm-en-noun-8BX0vOyv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: yealm

Verb

IPA: /jɛlm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yealm.wav [Southern-England] Forms: yelms [present, singular, third-person], yelming [participle, present], yelmed [participle, past], yelmed [past]
Rhymes: -ɛlm Etymology: From Middle English yelm, from Old English ġilm, ġelm (“handful”), from Proto-West Germanic *galmi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|yelm}} Middle English yelm, {{inh|en|ang|ġilm}} Old English ġilm, {{m|ang|ġelm|t=handful}} ġelm (“handful”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*galmi}} Proto-West Germanic *galmi, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰelh₃-|t=to flourish}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-yelm-en-verb-0aPwnV-E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: yealm

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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