# holm
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /həʊm/, /həʊlm/
* (US) IPA: /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)
* Small island, islet.
* An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
* (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.
* Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

holm (plural holms)
* (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.
* 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)
* a small island

#### Inflection
## 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)
* 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: /xolm/, [hoɫm]

### Noun

holm m (nominative plural holmas)
* (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:

#### Descendants

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin holmium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɔlm/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔlm
* Syllabification: holm

### Noun

holm m inan
* holmium (chemical element, Ho, atomic number 67)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* holm in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian холм (xolm).

### Noun

holm n (plural holmuri)
* (Moldavia (region)) hill

#### Declension
### 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: /xòːlm/, /xóːlm/

### Noun

họ̄lm m inan
* hill

#### Inflection
### 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: /hɔlˈmɛ/

### Noun

holm c
* islet (especially nearby river or mainland)

#### Derived terms

* Stockholm
* Holm
* Holmberg
* Lindholm

### References

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