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Arm

Pronunciation: /arm/

“Arm” is a German word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. an arm
  2. a sleeve
  3. a long protusion on a device or machine, e.g. a lever
  4. a branch, a section of a structure
  5. an arm of a creek or a river
  6. influence, might

Etymology

From Middle High German arm, from Old High German arm, from Proto-West Germanic *arm, from Proto-Germanic *armaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ermos, *h₂ŕ̥mos, an extension of *h₂er- (“to fit together, to link, to join”). Cognate with Dutch arm, English arm, Swedish arm, Yiddish אָרעם (orem). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin armus and arma.

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