shalm

English

Noun

shalm (plural shalms)

  1. Obsolete form of shawm.
    • 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert
      These few words were continually repeated, and to describe the sound, it was as if you heard forest-horns and shalms sounded together from a far distance.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      Paris flings up her windows, claps hands, as the Avengers, with their shrilling drums and shalms tramp by....

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Irish

Noun

shalm m

  1. Lenited form of salm.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
salm shalm
after an, tsalm
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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