myEtymology.com: English etymology of shalmye

Etymology of the English word shalmye

the English word shalmye

derived from the Old French word chalemie

derived from the Old French word chalemel

derived from the Latin word calamellus (small, little reed, pen)

derived from the Late Latin word calamus (branch; arm; branch of a candelabrum; reed, cane; reed pen)

derived from the Greek word kalamos, κάλαμος (a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen)