Palme

See also: palmę, palme, palmé, and palmë

English

Etymology

From Middle High German palme, balme.

Proper noun

Palme (plural Palmes)

1. A surname from Swedish.
2. Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister.

Anagrams

• Mapel, Maple, ample, maple, pelma

German

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂

Proto-Italic *palamā

Latin palmabor.

Old High German palm

Middle High German palme

German Palme

Inherited from Middle High German palme, from Old High German palm, borrowed from Latin palma, from Proto-Italic *palamā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂, from *pleh₂-, possibly from *pleth₂- or *pel-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalmə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Pal‧me
• Rhymes: -almə

Noun

Palme f (genitive Palme, plural Palmen)

1. palm tree
2. a palm branch

Declension

Declension of Palme [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Palme	die	Palmen
genitive	einer	der	Palme	der	Palmen
dative	einer	der	Palme	den	Palmen
accusative	eine	die	Palme	die	Palmen

Hyponyms

• Dattelpalme
• Fächerpalme
• Fiederpalme
• Hanfpalme
• Kohlpalme
• Kokosnusspalme
• Salakpalme
• Stechpalme
• Yuccapalme

Derived terms

• auf die Palme bringen

Related terms

• Palmenbaum
• Palmendach
• Palmengattung
• Palmenwald
• Palmenzweig
• Palmfett
• Palmherzen
• Palmlilie
• Palmöl
• Palmwedel

Further reading

• “Palme”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Palme” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Palme” in Duden online
• “Palme” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Palme on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Anagrams

• Ampel, Lampe

Hunsrik

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German palme. Doublet of Pallem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰalmə/
• Rhymes: -almə
• Syllabification: Pal‧me

Noun

Palme m (plural Palme)

1. palm (branch or leaf of the palm)

Derived terms

• Palmesonntach
• Palmestock

References

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Palme”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 122, column 2

Swedish

Proper noun

Palme c (genitive Palmes)

1. a surname

Further reading

• Palme in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)