Sturm

See also: sturm, stürm, and šturm

English

Etymology

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German Sturmbor.

English Sturm

Borrowed from German Sturm.

Proper noun

Sturm (plural Sturms)

1. A surname from German.

Derived terms

• Sturmian
• Sturm-Liouville equation
• Sturm-Liouville form

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sturm is the 3832^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9242 individuals. Sturm is most common among White (95.3%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sturm”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Strum, strum, turms

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German sturm (“storm”). The retention of the u vowel is irregular; it was lowered to o due to a-mutation in all other West Germanic languages and even Old Norse, despite German being the one Germanic language where a-mutation most consistently occurred, especially of u to o.

Cognates

Compare Luxembourgish Stuerm, Low German Storm, Dutch storm, English storm, Danish storm, Icelandic stormur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtʊrm/, [ʃtʊʁm], [ʃtʊɐ̯m]

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Noun

Sturm m (