The story
- Latin · derived fromauris“ear”
- Late Latin · derived from*auris maris“ear of the sea”
- French · derived fromormier
- Norman · derived fromormèr
- English todayormer
From Norman ormèr/ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris (“ear of the sea”), from Latin auris (“ear”) + mare (“sea”).
Words from the same roots
Latinauris all →
aur-auratedauriscalpauriscalpium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.