elm

Etymology

From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz , from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem 'mountain elm'. See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).

noun

  1. (countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
  2. (uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.

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