helme
See also: Helme
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English helma, from Proto-Germanic *helmô.
Alternative forms
- helm
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛlm(ə)/
Noun
helme (plural helmes)
- A tiller or helm.
Descendants
- English: helm
References
- “helm(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
Etymology 2
From Old English helm.
Noun
helme
- Alternative form of helm
Etymology 3
From Old English healm.
Noun
helme
- Alternative form of halm
Old French
Alternative forms
- healme, heaume, hiaume, elme
Etymology
From Medieval Latin helmus (“helmet”).
Noun
helme m (oblique plural helmes, nominative singular helmes, nominative plural helme)
- helmet (protective headguard)
Descendants
- Middle French: heaume, helme, elme
- French: heaume
- → Middle English: healme, helm (confluence with Old English helm)
- English: helm
- ⇒ Old French: helmet (diminutive)
- Middle French: heaumet, armet
- French: armet
- → Catalan: elmet
- Italian: elmetto
- → Middle English: healmet, helmet (displacing Old English helm)
- English: helmet
- → Spanish: elmete
- Middle French: heaumet, armet