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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/helmaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelmos (“covering”), from the root *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, protect”).[1]Cognate to Proto-Germanic *helaną, Latin clam, Latin celo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxel.mɑz/
Noun
*helmaz m
- helmet
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *helmaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *helmaz | *helmōz, *helmōs | |
vocative | *helm | *helmōz, *helmōs | |
accusative | *helmą | *helmanz | |
genitive | *helmas, *hilmis | *helmǫ̂ | |
dative | *hilmai | *helmamaz | |
instrumental | *helmō | *helmamiz |
Derived terms
- *Aþalahelmaz
- *Aldahelmaz
- *Wiljahelmaz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *helm
- Old English: helm
- Middle English: helm
- English: helm
- Middle English: helm
- Old Frisian: helm
- Saterland Frisian: Hälm
- West Frisian: helm
- Old Saxon: helm
- Middle Low German: helm
- Low German: Helm
- Middle Low German: helm
- Old Dutch: helm
- Middle Dutch: helm
- Dutch: helm
- Middle Dutch: helm
- Old High German: helm
- Middle High German: helm
- German: Helm
- Polish: hełm
- Luxembourgish: Helm
- German: Helm
- Middle High German: helm
- → Latin: helmus [867 CE, France] (see there for further descendants)
- Old English: helm
- Old Norse: hjalmr
- Icelandic: hjálmur m
- Faroese: hjálmur m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hjelm m; (dialectal) hjalm m, kjålm m, kjelm m, sjælm m
- Westrobothnian: hjall, Jaggmark (< *hjolmr < hjalmr)
- Old Swedish: hiælmber
- Swedish: hjälm c
- Danish: hjelm c
- Norwegian Bokmål: hjelm m
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 (hilms)
- → Proto-Slavic: *šelmъ (see there for further descendants)
- →? Proto-Finnic: *helma (“hem, margin of cloth”)
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Helm”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN