tharm
Middle English
/θarm/
noun
Definitions
- One of a creature's organs especially when located in the chest.
- (often as plural) The guts, entrails, bowels or intestines.
- (often as plural) The guts or intestines used as food.
- (rare) A parasitic worm living in the intestines.
- (rare) A child; one of one's immediate offspring or descendants.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English þearm (gut, intestine, entrail) inherited from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (guts, intestines, gut, intestine) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *tórmos.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*tórmos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tharm English
- Darm German
- darm Dutch, Flemish
- тормоз Russian
- τόρμος Ancient Greek
- *ter- Proto-Indo-European
- *terh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *tórmos Proto-Indo-European
- *þarmaz Proto-Germanic
- tarm Swedish
- þearm Old English
- þarmr Old Norse
- darm Middle Dutch
- darm Old High German
- darm Middle High German
- *tharm Old Dutch
- tharmber Old Swedish
- thairm Scots
- therm Old Frisian
- Daarem Hunsrik
- diüem Vilamovian