elm

Senso (Inglese)

1. (countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
2. (attributive, uncountable, usually) Wood from an elm tree.

Concetti

olmo

Ulmus

sinonimi

elm tree

elmwood

Ulmaceae

Ulmus pumila

American elm

rock elm

Traduzioni

orme

Ulme

olmo

iep

olmo

om

olm

ulmeiro

ulmus

φτελιά

λεύκα

karaağaç

Ulmus

ulmo

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɛlm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: elme

Ereditato da inglese antico: elm

Affine basso tedesco: Elm

Affine tedesco: Ilm

Affine tedesco: Ilme

Affine norvegese: -

Affine svedese: alm

Affine irlandese: leamh

Affine latino: ulmus

Affine albanese: ulzë

In summary

From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”).
See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).