different between palsy vs palmy

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parálusis, “palsy”), from ??????? (paralú?, “to disable on one side”), from ????- (para-, “beside”) + ??? (lú?, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??lzi/

Noun

palsy (countable and uncountable, plural palsies)

1. (pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The palsie plagues my pulses
     when I prigg yo?: piggs or pullen
     your culuers take, or matchles make
     your Chanticleare or sullen

   Synonym: paralysis

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

palsy (third-person singular simple present palsies, present participle palsying, simple past and past participle palsied)

1. To paralyse, either completely or partially.
   • 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public [1]

     In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 2, chapter 9

     Its streets were blocked up with snow - the few passengers seemed palsied with snow, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.

Etymology 2

From pals +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pælzi/

Adjective

palsy (comparative more palsy, superlative most palsy)

1. (colloquial) Chummy, friendly.

Further reading

• palsy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• palsy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• palsy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• plays, splay, spyal

English

Etymology

From palm +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??mi/

Adjective

palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)

1. (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. [15th-19th c.]
2. Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees. [from 16th c.]
   • 1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn:

     From Greenland’s icy mountains,

     From India’s coral strand,

     Where Afric’s sunny fountains

     Roll down their golden sand;

     From many an ancient river,

     From many a palmy plain,

     They call us to deliver

     Their land from error’s chain.

3. Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. [from 17th c.]
   • 1832, The London Spy (volume 2, page 292):

     Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 46:

     ‘It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.’

   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 48:

     So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.

Anagrams

• amply, maply

Czech

Noun

palmy

1. genitive singular of palma
2. nominative plural of palma
3. accusative plural of palma
4. vocative plural of palma

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pal.m?/

Noun

palmy

1. inflection of palma:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

palmy

1. first-person plural imperative of pali?

Further reading

• palmy in Polish dictionaries at PWN