Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/helm

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  helmet

Etymology 2
From, related to (whence ). The ablaut points to an older athematic paradigm in, according to Kroonen probably ; compare 🇨🇬. The o-grade in and cognates such as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 may have come either from an accusative stem  or by analogy with the thematic suffix. In any case ultimately from the root.

Noun

 * 1)  a reedy grass that dries as hollow stalks: bentgrass (genus  or ); sedge