harm – English noun declension

English noun forms of harm

Noun: harm
Singularharm
Pluralharms

Sample Sentences

  • No harm came to my possessions.
  • You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the teeth.
  • Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
  • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • I wish him no harm.
  • We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]

Etymology

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”). Cognate with Dutch harm (“harm”), German Harm (“harm”), Danish harme (“indignation, resentment”), Icelandic harmur (“sorrow, grief”), Swedish harm (“anger, indignation, harm”). See: Middle English Nouns 'harm', Old English Nouns 'hearm', German Nouns 'Harm', Danish Nouns 'harme', Icelandic Nouns 'harmur', Swedish Nouns 'harm'.

Verbs referencing "harm"

Swedish Nouns harm, Old Norse Nouns harmr.