helme

helme (plural helmes)

1. Obsolete spelling of helm.

helme

1. vocative singular of helmus

From Old English helma, from Proto-Germanic *helmô.

• helm

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlm(ə)/

helme (plural helmes)

1. A tiller or helm.

• English: helm

• “helm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 July 2018.

helme

1. alternative form of helm
   • c. 1450-1460, unknown author, Merlin : or, the early history of King Arthur

     The kynge Ban be-gan to laugh vndir his helme.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

helme

1. alternative form of halm

• IPA^(key): /ˈxel.me/, [ˈheɫ.me]

helme

1. dative singular of helm

• healme, heaume, hiaume, elme

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin helmus.

helme oblique singular, m (oblique plural helmes, nominative singular helmes, nominative plural helme)

1. helmet (protective headguard)

• Middle French: heaume, helme, elme
  • French: heaume
• → Middle English: healme, helm (confluence with Old English helm)
  • English: helm
• ⇒ Old French: helmet (diminutive)
  • Middle French: heaumet, armet
    • French: armet
    • → Catalan: elmet
    • Italian: elmetto
    • → Middle English: healmet, helmet (displacing Old English helm)
      • English: helmet
    • → Spanish: elmete

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish هلیمه (helime), from Arabic [Term?].

helme (definite accusative helmeyi, plural helmeler)

1. (botany) any thick, viscous substance found in the roots, flowers and seeds of some plants
2. thick liquid formed by the precipitation of starch when beans, rice, or wheat are boiled

• “helme”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “helme”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “helme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1928
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “helme”, in Nişanyan Sözlük