jerm

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *erma. Compare Lithuanian ermas (“monster”), Latvian erms (“wonderful apparition”)[1], and also Old English gyrman, dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”).

Noun

jerm m

  1. delirium, absent mindedness

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “jerm”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 158
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