psealm
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Late Latin psalmus; the initial p- was probably silent except for in careful, learned speech.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpsealm m
Declension
editDeclension of psealm (strong a-stem)
Descendants
edit- Middle English: salm, psalm, psalme, psame, salme, saulm, saume, spalme, sallme, sealm, selm (Early Middle English)
Further reading
edit- Monika Opalińska (2018 January) “'Hearing the inaudible'. On scribal representations of phonological categories in medieval English verse”, in Bartomiej Czaplicki, Beata Łukaszewicz, Monika Opalińska, editors, Phonology, Fieldwork, Generalizations, Peter Lang, pages 169-184.