holm

Significat (Anglès)

  1. Small island, islet.
  2. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
  3. (Orkney, Scotland, dialectal) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names.
  4. Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.

Conceptes

aulina

Sinònims

flood-lands

holly-tree

holm-oak

Traduccions

Freqüència

24k
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/həʊm/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”). Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.

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