# elm
## Translingual
### Symbol

elm
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eleme.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Eleme terms

## English
### Alternative forms

* ellum (pronunciation spelling)

### Etymology

From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”).
See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ĕlm, IPA: /ɛlm/
* (dialectal) enPR: ĕləm, IPA: /ˈɛləm/ (see ellum)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlm

### Noun

elm (countable and uncountable, plural elms)
* (countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
    Synonym: (dialectal) elven
** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
** 1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 67:The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the level plain of the Pewsey Vale.
* (uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.

#### Derived terms

* American elm (Ulmus americana)
* Atinian elm
* bastard elm (Celtis occidentalis)
* Camperdown elm
* Caucasian elm (Zelkova carpinifolia)
* cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia)
* cherry bark elm (Ulmus villose)
* chestnut-leafed elm (Ulmus castaneifolia)
* Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
* common elm (Ulmus minor, Ulmus procera)
* cork elm (Ulmus thomasii)
* Cornish elm
* cutleaf elm (Ulmus laciniata)
* Dutch elm disease (from Ophiostoma spp. fungus)
* Dutch elm (Ulmus × hollandica)
* elm bark beetle
* elm beetle (Xanthogaleruca luteola etc.)
* elmen
* Elmhurst
* elm-leaf beetle (Xanthogaleruca luteola etc.)
* elmlike
* elmness
* Elm Park
* elm sawfly (Cimbex americanus)
* Elmsdale
* elm tree (Ulmus spp.)
* elmwood
* Elmwood
* elmy
* elm yellows
* English cork elm (Ulmus minor, syn. Ulmus procera)
* English elm (Ulmus minor, syn.Ulmus procera)
* European field elm (Ulmus minor)
* European white elm (Ulmus laevis)
* field elm (Ulmus minor)
* fluttering elm (Ulmus laevis)
* Great Elm (village)
* Guernsey elm
* hickory elm (Ulmus thomasii)
* Huntingdon elm
* Japanese elm (Ulmus davidiana var. japonica; Zelkova serrata)
* Jersey elm
* lacebark elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
* lobed elm (Ulmus laciniata)
* long raceme elm (Ulmus elongata)
* Manchurian elm (Ulmus laciniata)
* Mexican elm (Ulmus mexicana)
* multi-nerved elm (Ulmus castaneifolia)
* Nine Elms
* northern elm
* purple elm
* red elm (Ulmus rubra)
* rock elm (Ulmus thomasii)
* Russian elm (Ulmus laevis)
* Scotch elm, Scots elm (Ulmus glabra)
* September elm (Ulmus serotina)
* Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
* slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)
* smaller European elm bark beetle
* soft elm (Ulmus rubra)
* Southampton elm
* southern elm
* Spanish elm (Cordia alliodora)
* spreading elm (Ulmus laevis)
* stately elm (Ulmus laevis)
* Texas cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia)
* West Indian elm
* Wheatley elm
* white elm (Ulmus americana)
* winged elm (Ulmus alata)
* witch elm
* wych elm (Ulmus glabra)
* yoke elm (Carpinus spp.)

#### Related terms

* Burslem
* Elmbridge
* Elmhurst
* Limoges
* limousin
* Limousin
* limousine
* Newcastle-under-Lyme
* Nine Elms

#### Translations
### See also

* keyaki, kiaki
* zelkova

### Further reading

* elm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* List of elm species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* List of elm cultivars, hybrids and hybrid cultivars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “* elm”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* mel, Lem, LEM, EML, MLE, L.E.M., -mel-, MEL, Mel

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic عِلْم (ʕilm).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

elm (definite accusative elmi, plural elmlər)
* science

#### Related terms

* əhli-elm

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin helmus, elmus. First attested in the 13th century.

### Noun

elm m (plural elms)
* helmet
* Semicassis saburon (helmet snail found in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic)

#### Related terms

* elmet

### References

* ↑ “elm”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “elm” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “elm” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “elm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* alme, elme, helm, ulme

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). For the variant ulme, compare Old English ulmtrēow.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛlm/

### Noun

elm (plural elmes)
* elm tree

#### Descendants

* English: elm (dialectal ellum)
* Scots: elm

#### References

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

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /elm/, [eɫm]

### Noun

elm m
* elm tree

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: elm, alme, elme, helm, ulme
** English: elm (dialectal ellum)
** Scots: elm

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛlm/
* (Hawick) IPA: /ˈɛˌlʌm/

### Noun

elm (plural elms)
* elm