berm

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*barmaz“edge, border, seam”
2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*barm
3. Old Dutch · derived from*barm
4. Middle Dutch · derived frombarm
5. French · borrowed fromberme
6. Dutch · borrowed fromberm“strip of roadside grass, verge”
7. English todayberm

From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).

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