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- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*harmaz“harm; shame; pain”
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*harm
- Old English · inherited fromhearm
- Middle English · inherited fromharm
- English todayharm
From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”). Cognate with Dutch harm (“harm”), German Harm (“harm”), Danish harme (“indignation, resentment”), Icelandic harmur (“sorrow, grief”), Swedish harm (“anger, indignation, harm”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.