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From 中期英語 chirmen (“to chirp, twitter”), from 古期英語 ċirman (“to make a noise, cry out, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmijan (“to make a sound”).
The noun is from 中期英語 chirm (“the call of various birds; chirping”), from 古期英語 ċirm, ċyrm, ċierm (“noise, cry, alarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, *karm, from Proto-Germanic *karmaz, *karmiz. Doublet of charm (“sound, voices; group, flock”).
chirm (third-person singular simple present chirms, present participle chirming, simple past and past participle chirmed)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chirm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Inherited from 古期英語 ċierm f, from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.
The variant charme can either originate from the 古期英語 variant ċearm m (from Proto-West Germanic *karm) or *ċerm, the unattested Mercian cognate of West Saxon ċierm with late 中期英語 lowering of /ɛr/ to /ar/ (thus reflecting an alternative dialectal development of *karmi).
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