holm

See also: Holm, hõlm, and ħolm

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• holme (obsolete)

Noun

holm (plural holms)

1. Small island, islet.
2. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
3. (dialect, 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.
4. Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.

Translations

small island

• Danish: holm (da) c
• Dutch: holm (nl) m
• Finnish: luoto (fi)
• Scottish Gaelic: innis f
• Swedish: holme (sv)
• Ukrainian: остріве́ць (ostrivécʹ)

Etymology 2

From Middle English holm, holme, alteration of Middle English holin (“holly”). Doublet of hollin and holly.

Noun

holm (plural holms)

2. (obsolete outside dialects) The holly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5:

     The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round, / The caruer Holme, the Maple, ſeeldom inward ſound.

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

Derived terms

• holming
• holm oak
• sea holm

Anagrams

• LMHO, Mohl

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

holm c (singular definite holmen, plural indefinite holme)

1. a small island

Inflection

Declension of holm

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	holm	holmen	holme	holmene
genitive	holms	holmens	holmes	holmenes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch holm, from Old Dutch holm, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *holm (“island”), from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“small island, hill, mound”), from Pre-Germanic *kl̥Hmos, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“hill”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlm

Noun

holm m (plural holmen, diminutive holmpje n)

1. a small island; an islet

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *holm (“island”), though the meaning was influenced by Old Norse holmr.

Cognate with Old Saxon holm (German Holm), Old Dutch holm (Dutch holm); also Latin culmen (“peak”); compare culminate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xolm/, [hoɫm]

Noun

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.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	holm	holmas
accusative	holm	holmas
genitive	holmes	holma
dative	holme	holmum

Descendants

• Middle English: holm, holme
  • English: holm
  • Scots: holm, houm

Polish

Chemical element
Ho
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holm

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin holmium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔlm/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔlm
• Syllabification: holm

Noun

holm m inan

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

Declension

Declension of holm

	singular
nominative	holm
genitive	holmu
dative	holmowi
accusative	holm
instrumental	holmem
locative	holmie
vocative	holmie

Further reading

• holm in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian холм (xolm).

Noun

holm n (plural holmuri)

1. (Moldavia (region)) hill

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	holm	holmul		holmuri	holmurile
genitive-dative	holm	holmului		holmuri	holmurilor
vocative	holmule			holmurilor

References

• holm in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xъlmъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xòːlm/, /xóːlm/

Noun

họ̄lm m inan

1. hill

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	hólm
gen. sing.	hólma
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	hólm	hólma	hólmi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	hólma	hólmov	hólmov
dative (dajȃlnik)	hólmu	hólmoma	hólmom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	hólm	hólma	hólme
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	hólmu	hólmih	hólmih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	hólmom	hólmoma	hólmi

Further reading

• “holm”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔlˈmɛ/

Noun

holm c

1. islet (especially nearby river or mainland)

Declension

Declension of holm

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	holm	holms
	definite	holmen	holmens
plural	indefinite	holmar	holmars
	definite	holmarna	holmarnas

Derived terms

• Stockholm
• Holm
• Holmberg
• Lindholm

References

• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• holm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)