Holm

Significado (English)

1. (masculine,strong) rail, bar (on which to hold on to)
2. (masculine,strong) spar

Synonyms

Werder

kleine Insel

Balken

Dorn

Hauptbalken

Barrenholm

Wörth

Flussinsel

Werth

Wange

Inselchen

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/hɔlm/

Etimoloxía (English)

Borrowed from Middle Low German: holm

Cognate with inglés: helm

Borrowed from Middle Low German: -

Cognate with inglés: holm

Cognate with dinamarqués: holm

Cognate with sueco: holme

Cognate with islandés: hólmi

In summary

Probably from Middle Low German holm (“girt”), from Old Saxon *helma, from Proto-West Germanic *helmō, which pertains to the Germanic root *helmô (compare English helm).
Older theories derive it from the plural of dialectal Hulbe (“beam”) with -ben → -m (a rather common development in German). This seems less likely, particularly since Holm was spread by Jahn, who introduced several Low German dialect words to the standard.