holme.
a small island, an islet, a holm (normally uninhabited and typically more or less covered with trees)
Meaning & usage
a small island, an islet, a holm (normally uninhabited and typically more or less covered with trees)
a small (forested) hill, a mound, a knoll (surrounded by relatively flat terrain)
a designated place for a duel in early medieval Scandinavia, especially in Norway and Iceland (originally and often a holme in (sense 1) (small island))
Where this word comes from
From Old Swedish holmber, Old Norse holmr, from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz. Cognate with Icelandic hólmur (dative hólmi), German Holm. (sense 3) is a semantic loan from Icelandic hólmur.
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