Thread: "Я стал медленно взбираться на холм" (Making it female)

The Rusalka sounds very cool...
I had never heard of it.

Originally Posted by Wowik

Main Entry: holm
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Old Norse hōlmr;
Date: before 12th century
British : a small inland or inshore island;

Hah! They are wrong. Sweden is full of places with the word -holm, meaning hill. Basically it means something sticking up from the ground ("toppy") and it doesnät matter if it is on land or in a lake. Proved by the fact that the places in question are not islands but hills, and are not even near any lake.

PLUS the word is used in old songs with the meaning "hill".
This source is incomplete.

Originally Posted by Johanna

Originally Posted by Wowik

Main Entry: holm
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Old Norse hōlmr;
Date: before 12th century
British : a small inland or inshore island;

Hah! They are wrong.

It is English Etymology Dictionary.

My "Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology" says that 'holm(e)' was used in English meaning 'islet' in the 11th century and 'low-lying land by a river' in the 13th. As related words it gives 'holmr' from Old Norse meaning 'islet' or 'meadow by the shore', Old English 'holm' for billow, wave, sea (in poetic context), and Old Swedish 'holm' for 'hill'.

Robin