An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Holm

by Friedrich Kluge

Holm, masculine, ‘holm,’ first occurs in Modern High German; a Low German word; compare Old Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, and English holm (Anglo-Saxon ‘sea, lake,’ Old Saxon ‘hill’), Old Icelandic holmr, ‘small island in a bay or river.’ Apart from the divergent sense in Anglo-Saxon, the words (whence Russian cholmŭ, ‘hill,’ from Slavonic *chŭlmŭ, is borrowed) are related to the cognates of English hill (allied to Latin collis, culmen). See Halde.