Etymology

wyrm

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Today it means: A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature. Full definition →

Old English wyrm
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The story

  1. Old English · learned borrowing fromwyrm
  2. English todaywyrm

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwyrm all →

Wormley

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