heirloom

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛə.luːm/
  Play
• General-American: /ˈɛɚ.lum/
  Play
• General-American: [ˈɛɹ.lum]
  Play
• Australian: /ˈeː.lʉːm/
  Play
• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: EH1 R L UW2 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Inherited from Middle English heirlome (“heirloom”, literally “a tool or article passed to one's heirs”). By surface analysis, heir + loom. Displaced native Old English fæderġestrēon.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: мираҫ (miraś) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Bulgarian: реликва (relikva) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Catalan: patrimoni — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Chinese Mandarin: 傳家寶 /传家宝 (chuánjiābǎo) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Danish: arvestykke — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Dutch: erfstuk — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Esperanto: heredaĵo — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Finnish: perintökalleus — valued possession passed down through the generations
• French: patrimoine — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Galician: herdanza — valued possession passed down through the generations
• German: Erbstück — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Greek: κειμήλιο (keimílio) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Ancient Greek: κειμήλιον (keimḗlion) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Irish: séad fine — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Irish: seoid fine — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Irish: airnéis oidhreach — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Italian: patrimonio — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Italian: retaggio — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Italian: lascito — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Italian: bagaglio — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Japanese: 家宝 (kahou) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Korean: 가보 (gabo) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Māori: taonga tuku iho — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Khiamniungan Naga: tīngkām — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Norwegian: arvestykke — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Old English: lāf — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Old Norse: leif — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Plautdietsch: Oawstekj — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Polish: dziedzictwo — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Portuguese: herança — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Russian: семе́йная рели́квия (seméjnaja relíkvija) — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Spanish: patrimonio — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Spanish: reliquia familiar — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Spanish: reliquia patrimonial — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Swedish: släktklenod — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Tagalog: muyas — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Turkish: yadigâr — valued possession passed down through the generations
• Finnish: perinnelajike — crop variety that has been passed down through generations
• German: alte Sorte — crop variety that has been passed down through generations