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orm

Pronunciation: /ˈʊrm/

“orm” is a Swedish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. serpent, snake, or therof slithering legless animal (cf. kopparorm, “slowworm”, sandorm, “sandworm” in the book series Dune)
  2. snake; a legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes
  3. earthworm, maggot, larva (cf. English worm)
  4. dragon (cf. English worm); any (mythical) dragon-like creature (cf. lindorm, “lindworm”, sjöorm, “sea serpent”)
  5. the archetype of dragons and serpents as morbidity and (in essence, dragons are serpents, and serpents are dragons; compare etter, “atter, snake/dragon venom → figurative morbidity”)
  6. snake (generic insult, referencing the archetype of serpents)
  7. a mythical worm living in a human body parts, teeth or bones, causing various kinds of sickness

Etymology

From Old Swedish ormber (“snake/dragon, worm/vermin, ringworm”), from Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, *wrmo- (“serpent, scorpion, maggot, worm”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn = slither?”). Akin to English worm, wyrm. Doublet of vurm.

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