salm

salm (plural salms)

1. Obsolete form of psalm.

• “salm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AMLs, masl, Alms, M.L.A.s, ALMS, alms, MSAL, SLAM, SAML, AMSL, MLAs, MASL, amsl, ALMs, mals, lams, slam, LAMs, Lams

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [salm]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [sɒlm]

salm m

1. A psalm

From Old Irish salm, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós).^[1]

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɑl̪ˠəmˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠal̪ˠəmˠ/

salm m (genitive singular sailm, nominative plural sailm)

1. psalm

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “salm”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 935; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “salm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “salm”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “salm”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

• psalm, psalme, psame, salme, saulm, saume, spalme
• sallme, sealm, selm (Early Middle English)

Inherited from Old English psealm, from Late Latin psalmus. Some forms are influenced by Old French salme, saume.

• IPA^(key): /salm/, (after French) /ˈsalm(ə)/, /ˈsau̯m(ə)/

salm (plural salmes)

1. A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)

   Hypernym: ymne

   • c. 1390 [c. 1225], “Furſte dole: ſeruiſe”, in Þe roule of reclous (Ancrene Wisse, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1)‎^[1], Worcestershire, folio 372, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     ¶ ffıftene pſalm᷒ ſıggeþ. on þis wyſe. ¶ Þe ffurſte fyue. foꝛ ow self⹎ and foꝛ alle. þat ow good doþ. oþer wilneþ. ¶ Þe oþer ffyue⹎ foꝛ þe pees of holy chırche. ¶ Þe þride fyue⹎ foꝛ alle crıstene ſoules

     Say the fifteen Psalms in this way: the first five for yourselves and for all those who act or wish well towards you, the next five for the peace of Holy Church, and the third five for all Christian souls.

2. (by extension) A Christian hymn or creed.

• English: psalm
• Scots: saum, sawm
• → Middle Welsh: salm
  • Welsh: salm

• “Psalm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós).

salm m (genitive sailm, nominative plural sailm)

1. psalm

For quotations using this term, see Citations:salm.

• Irish: salm
• Manx: saum, sawm
• Scottish Gaelic: salm

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “salm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /salm/

salm m

1. psalm

From Old Irish salm, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪al̪ˠam/^[1]

salm f (genitive singular sailm, plural sailm)

1. psalm

• IPA^(key): [salm]

salm (genitive salma, plural salms)

1. (male or female) salmon (fish)

Inherited from Middle Welsh salm, from Middle English salm, from Latin psalmus.

• IPA^(key): /salm/
• Rhymes: -alm

salm f (plural salmau, not mutable)

1. psalm

• Salmau (“Book of Psalms”)
• salmydd (“psalmist”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “salm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

salm c (plural salm’m)

1. salmon

• “salm”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011