Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tharm

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tharm
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An intestine; an entrail; gut.

Etymology

From Middle English tharm, therm, from Old English þearm (“gut, entrail, intestine”), from Proto-West Germanic *þarm (“guts”), from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“guts”), from Proto-Indo-European *tórmos, *torh₂mo- (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub, bore, twist”). Cognate with Scots thairm (“gut; bowel; intestine”), North Frisian teerm (“bowel”), West Frisian term (“bowel”), Dutch darm (“bowel; gut; intestine”), German Darm (“gut; intestine; bowel”), Danish tarm (“bowel; gut; intestine”), Norwegian tarm (“intestine”), Norwegian Nynorsk tarm (“intestine”), Swedish tarm (“bowel; gut”), Icelandic þarmur (“bowel”), Latin trāmes (“way; path, track”), Ancient Greek τρᾰ́μῑς (trắmīs, “tharm; gut”), τόρμος (tórmos, “socket; peg”). Doublet of derm.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: tharm, þearm, *þarm, *þarmaz, *tórmos, *ter-

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

tharms (plural) thairm (alternative, Scotland) therm (alternative, obsolete)

Rhymes With

Questions

What does tharm mean?
An intestine; an entrail; gut.
Where does tharm come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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