holm
/həʊm//hoʊm/
- n.
- <主英>河边肥沃的低地，河(或湖)中小岛
中文释义来自 ECDICT
holm1词源 1
词源链
- 原始印欧语Proto-Indo-European约前 4500–前 2500 年
派生
- 英语English
holm
词源说明
From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”).
Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.
释义
名词noun
- 1Small island, islet.
- 2An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
- 3(dialect, chiefly West Yorkshire(?), Scotland, Orkney) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names.
- 4Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.