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

References

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