different between helmet vs behelm

English

Alternative forms

• helmette (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme (Modern French heaume), equivalent to helm +? -et. The Old French is itself of Germanic origin (whence Old English helm). Used in English since the 15th century, it has largely displaced helm as the general word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lm?t/, /?h?lm?t/

Noun

helmet (plural helmets)

1. A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.
2. That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
   1. The upper part of a chemist's retort.
   2. The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
   3. A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
   4. (heraldry) The feature above a shield on a coat of arms.
   5. The glans penis.

Synonyms

• brain bucket, hard hat

Derived terms

• combat helmet
• bicycle helmet
• construction helmet
• crash helmet

Related terms

• helm

Translations

Verb

helmet (third-person singular simple present helmets, present participle helmeting, simple past and past participle helmeted)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a helmet.

Anagrams

• Lethem

Cebuano

Etymology

From English helmet, from Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hel?met

Noun

helmet

1. a helmet; a protective head covering, usually part of armour

Verb

helmet

1. to wear a helmet

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:helmet.

Finnish

Noun

helmet

1. Nominative plural form of helmi.
2. necklace made of pearls or beads

Declension

Synonyms

• (necklace): helminauha

Middle English

Alternative forms

• helmette, helmett, helmete

Etymology

From Old French helmet; equivalent to helm +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?lm?t/, /?h?lmit/

Noun

helmet

1. A helmet; an armoured piece of headgear.

Descendants

• English: helmet
• Scots: hoomet

References

• “helmet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

English

Etymology

From Middle English *behelmen, from Old English behelmian (“to cover over”), equivalent to be- +? helm. Related to Old English helan (“to cover”). More at hele.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lm

Verb

behelm (third-person singular simple present behelms, present participle behelming, simple past and past participle behelmed)

1. (transitive) To cover; cover over.
   • 1876, Virgil, William Morris, Cedric Chivers, The Aeneids of Virgil:

     And hundred-folded Briareus, and Lerna's Worm of dread Fell hissing; and Chimaera's length and fire-behelmed head, [...]

   • 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library:

     He went to the Thing in gold-reddened helm, and all his company was behelmed.

2. (transitive) To cover as with a helm or helmet.
   • 1985, Friedrich Schiller, Schiller Institute (Washington, D.C.), Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom:

     Stepped forth a virgin, with behelmed head Like to a martial goddess, fair at once And dreadful to behold; [...]

   • 1998, Margaret Bent, Andrew Wathey, Fauvel studies:

     Now come the days for fighting to the finish, bemail thy body and behelm thy head; Rally all those that desert thee, and put away forests and dice.