Old English · noun

æþm

Normalised ǣþm

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /æːθm/
[æːðm]
Syllables: æːθm (1 syllable)
Modern English: breathing vapour

Meaning

breathing
breath
vapour

...And ǣrest āmet ufan tō grunde and hū sīd sē swarta ēðm sēo.

...and first measure from above to its ground, how wide the black vapour is.
Caedmon's metrical paraphrase

Declension

Declension of æþm
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ǣþm	ǣþmas
Accusative	ǣþm	ǣþmas
Genitive	ǣþmes	ǣþma
Dative	ǣþme	ǣþmum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *āþm, from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₁tmén. Cognate with Old High German ātum (German Atem), Old Saxon āthom, Old Frisian ēthma, ādema, Sanskrit आत्मन् (ātmán, “soul; self; essence”), Dutch adem.

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