Contionary:wulchrom

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Niemish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈwulxrɔm/

Etymology

From wúlch + róm ("wolf-cream"), calqued from German Wolfram. A folk analysis as *wùl-chróm ("wool-chrome") leads some speakers to conjugate as a soft stem noun modelled after chróm ("chromium").

Noun

wúlchrom n.m. hard stem

  1. (uncountable) tungsten

Declension

declension of wúlchrom (mh declension, uncountable)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative wúlchrom wúlchroman
genitive wúlchroms wúlchromes
dative wúlchrom wúlchromum