köken: Relatinized form of older Salm (now an informal doublet meaning “lengthy talk”), from Middle High German salm(e), from Old High German salmo, from Latin psalmus, which see for more. The spelling ps- is occasionally attested also in Old and Middle High German, though this need not reflect an according pronunciation. The form was spread chiefly through Luther’s Bible. Dialectally, the pronunciation…
köken: From Middle French psaulme, from Old French psalme, salme, borrowed from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós). The p- was silent well into Modern French, but later came to be pronounced by analogy with learned words with ps- which had since been borrowed from Greek.
köken: Inherited from Late Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “song sung to a harp, performance on a stringed instrument”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “to pluck an instrument”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese salmo, psalmo, from Late Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “song sung to a harp, performance on a stringed instrument”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “to pluck an instrument”).
köken: From Koine Greek ψαλμοί (psalmoí, “Psalms”), substantivized plural of Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “twitching; sound of a harp; song, psalm”).
a hymn, a church song · a psalm of David, one of the chapters of the book of Psalms
çekim: çoğul psalmer · tamlayan psalms
köken: From Old Swedish salmber, psalmber, from Old Norse salmr, psalmr, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “the sound emenating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”).
köken: From the Middle High German salter (“psalm”), from the Medieval Latin psalterium (“psalter”), from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “a stringed instrument”).
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψᾰ́λλω (psắllō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek Ψᾰλμοί (Psălmoí)ubor. Latin Psalmī Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Ψᾰλμοί (Psălmoí).