haulm

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
2. (countable) An individual plant stem.
3. (countable) Part of a harness; a hame.

Sinonieme

straw

stalk

thatch

culm

halm

stipe

stubble

wheat straw

wheat-straw

chaff

wheat stalk

husk

scape

shuck

stem

Vertalings

chaume

halm

caule

stelo

stengel

paglia

calamus

loof

stam

stoppel

stro

rastolh

haste

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hɒm/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: halm

Geërf van Old English: healm

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: κάλαμος

Verwante met Latyn: culmus

In summary

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, culm, and helm (Etymology 4).