Old English · noun
folm
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /folm/[foɫm]
- Syllables
- folm (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- anatomypoetichandpalm
Meaning
-
(poetic) hand, palm
Ne hafað hio fot ne folm ne æfre foldan hran / ne eagene ægþer twega ne muð hafað.
It has neither foot nor hand, nor touches the ground / nor two eyes nor mouth nor speaks with men
1963, Paull Franklin Baum, Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book:
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fulmō. Doublet of palm(a).
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