лём

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Erzya

Лём. (2)

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *lam ~ *lom, inherited from Proto-Uralic *ďëme (“black cherry, bird cherry”); whence Finnish tuomi, Estonian toom, Northern Sami duobma, Komi-Zyrian льӧм (ľöm) and Northern Mansi ля̄м (lâ̄m).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lʲom/

Noun

лём • (ľom)

  1. bird cherry (also called hagberry, hackberry), a cherry tree native to northern Eurasia
    Synonyms: лём чувто (ľom čuvto), лёмзёркс (ľomźorks)
  2. flood plain, water meadow

Declension

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References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “лём”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #122 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.
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