tharm
Plural: tharms
Noun
- The intestine or gut, especially of an animal (variant of THAIRM).
- An intestine; an entrail; gut.
Examples
- Placing THARM on the Words With Friends board was a bit of a gamble, but it paid off handsomely.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English tharm, therm, from Old English þearm (“gut, entrail, intestine”), from Proto-West Germanic *þarm (“guts”), 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”), Danish tarm (“bowel, gut, intestine”), Norwegian tarm (“intestine”), Norwegian Nynorsk tarm (“intestine”), Swedish tarm (“bowel, gut”), Icelandic þarmur (“bowel”), Latin trāmes (“way, path, track”), Ancient Greek τράμις (trámis, “tharm, gut”), τόρμος (tórmos, “socket, peg”). Doublet of derm.
Scrabble Score: 10
tharm: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtharm: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tharm: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary