holm

• (UK) IPA^(key): /həʊm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm
• Homophone: home

Alteration of hollin.

holm (plural holms)

1. (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

2. A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.

• holming

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

holm (plural holms)

1. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
2. (dialectal, chiefly West Yorkshire, Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
3. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.

• LMHO, Mohl

From Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.

holm c (singular definite holmen, plural indefinite holme)

1. a small island

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“hill, rise”).

• Rhymes: -ɔlm

holm m (plural holmen, diminutive holmpje n)

1. a small island

From Old Norse holmr, also in Old Saxon, Frisian cognate. Root is Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“hill, rise”), equivalent to Latin culmen "peak", compare culminate.

• IPA^(key): /holm/

holm m (nominative plural holmas)

1. (poetic) ocean, sea, waters

   Ða wæs heofonweardes gast ofer holm boren.

   The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

• IPA^(key): /xɔlm/

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holm m inan

1. holmium (chemical element, Ho, atomic number 67)

• IPA^(key): /xòːlm/, /xóːlm/

họ̄lm m inan

1. hill

From Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. Cognate with Old Norse holmr, Icelandic hólmur, Old Church Slavonic хлъмъ (xlŭmŭ).

• IPA^(key): /hɔlˈmɛ/

holm n

1. islet (especially nearby river or mainland)

• Stockholm
• Holm
• Holmberg
• Lindholm

• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.