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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Connection with Latin lāma (“marsh, mud”) and Lithuanian lōmas (“pit, hollow”) is semantically unconvincing. According to Beekes, it is rather a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ̌ː.mɛː/ → /ˈli.mi/ → /ˈli.mi/
Noun
λήμη • (lḗmē) f (genitive λήμης); first declension
- rheum, sleep, a humour that gathers in the corner of the eye
Inflection
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Further reading
- “λήμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λήμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λήμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN