barmr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“project”), related to Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”).

Noun

barmr m

1. rim

Descendants

• Icelandic: barmur
• Faroese: barmur
• Norwegian Bokmål: barm
• Swedish: barm
• Danish: barm

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “barmr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN