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, 2013–2025

• 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

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

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 48^d27

  combad de no·gabthe in salm so: di chossecrad inna cathrach con·rótacht la Dauid hi Sión fri Ebustu .i. íarna n-indarbu á Hirusalem, arnacha·toirsitis aithirriuch

  so that it would be of this that this psalm would have been sung: of the consecration of the city that was built by David on Zion against the Jebusites, namely after their expulsion from Jerusalem, that they might not conquer it again

• 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): /ˈsal̪ˠam/

salm f (genitive singular sailm, plural sailm)

1. psalm

• IPA^(key): [salm]

salm (nominative 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

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salm c (plural salm’m)

1. salmom

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