Etymology

balm-cricket

Today it means: Any cicada (Cicadoidea spp.). Full definition →

German Baum
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The story

  1. German · derived fromBaum“tree”
  2. English todaybalm-cricket

From German Baum (“tree”) and cricket.

Words from the same roots

GermanBaum all →

Baum

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