Rahm

Etymology
Dialectal variant of expected (early modern German, rare), from, from , from , from.

The form ousted the regular form due to homonymy with, from. Dialects that have developed Middle High German -ou- into -ā- are found in south-eastern and central-western Germany. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  cream (milkfat)

Usage notes

 * In German standard German, Rahm is used mainly in compounds (such as Rahmsoße, Sauerrahm etc.); otherwise is much more common. This is not necessarily true of colloquial varieties nor of standard German in Austria and Switzerland.

Synonyms

 * (Austrian dialect)
 * (Austrian dialect)