arm
Scots
noun
Definitions
- arm
- arm of the sea
- bar, beam
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English arm (poor, wretched) inherited from Old English earm (poor, arm, wretched, pitiful, miserable) inherited from *arm (poor) inherited from Proto-Germanic *armaz (arm, poor, pitiful, pitiable, miserable) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo- (arm).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂er-mo-
Gloss
arm
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
腕
Emoji
🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arm English
- arm German
- *arəm- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂(e)rmos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂er-mo- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂er-mos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂erH- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂ermos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂ermos, *h₂ŕ̥mos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂r̥mós, *h₂(e)rmos Proto-Indo-European
- *armaz Proto-Germanic
- arm Old English
- earm Old English
- earmcearig Old English
- earmheort Old English
- iermþ Old English
- arm Middle English
- armr Old Norse
- arm Old High German
- 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 Gothic
- *arm gmw-pro
- arm Old Dutch
- *armas Proto-Finnic
- *armo Proto-Finnic
- arm Old Saxon
- erm Old Frisian