yarm
/ˈjɑː(ɹ)m/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A town and civil parish with a town council in Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4112).
Etymology
From Middle English ȝarmen, ȝermen, from Old English ġyrman, ġierman (“to cry, mourn, cry out, roar, lament”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *jarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *jarmijaną, *jarmōną (“to bellow, bleat”). Cognate with Scots yirm (“to whine, wail”), dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”). Compare Albanian jerm (“to rave, be delirious”). Compare English yammer.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ȝarmen, ġyrman, *jarmijan, *jarmijaną, ȝarm
Usage
- British usage