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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

Intestines twisted into a cord.

tharm ‎(plural tharms)

From thar.^[1]. Also compare Lithuanian šármas ‎(“lye”) and German Germ ‎(“yeast”).

tharm m (indefinite plural tharmë, definite singular tharmi, definite plural tharmet)

↑ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.472

From Middle English tharm, therm, from Old English þearm ‎(“gut, entrail, intestine”), from Proto-Germanic *þarmaz ‎(“guts”), from Proto-Indo-European *tórmos, *torh₂mo- ‎(“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- ‎(“to rub, bore, twist”). Cognate with Scots thairm ‎(“gut, bowel, intestine”), North Frisian teerm ‎(“bowel”), West Frisian term ‎(“bowel”), Dutch darm ‎(“bowel, gut, intestine”), German Darm ‎(“gut, intestine, bowel”), Swedish tarm ‎(“bowel, gut”), Icelandic þarmur ‎(“bowel”), Latin trāmes ‎(“way, path, track”), Ancient Greek τράμις ‎(trámis, “tharm, gut”).