lám

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Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of lám – see 攬 (“to grasp, to take hold of; to monopolize; to control; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 攬).

Hungarian

Etymology

Syncopic form of látom (“I see”), lát (“to see”) +‎ -om (personal suffix).

Pronunciation

Interjection

lám

  1. you see! well! lo! there!
    Lám, lám, végre találkoztunk! ― Well, well, we've finally met!
  2. (dialectal) Used in the expression hadd lám (“let me see”). Here lám is the contraction of lássam.

References

  1. ^ lám in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • lám in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

lám

  1. indefinite dative plural of lá

Klallam

Noun

lám

  1. beer

Macanese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Cantonese 欖／榄 (laam2).

Pronunciation

Noun

lám

  1. Chinese olive (Canarium album)
  2. European olive (Olea europaea)
Usage notes
  • The Macanese term generally refers to the Chinese fruit which is similar to a European olive, and eaten either sweet or savoury.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese lã, possibly further influenced by Cantonese 冷 (laang1, “wool yarn”). Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lám

  1. wool
    tecê lám ― to weave wool
    bola di lám ― ball of wool

References

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlāmā (compare Welsh llaw), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂ (“palm, hand”) (compare Latin palma, Greek παλάμη (palámē)).

Pronunciation

Noun

lám f (genitive láme or láime or lámae, nominative plural láma)

  1. hand
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9a5
      precept dosom fri dei et saithar ho lámaib in nocte
      to him teaching by day and labor with hands by night
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 36b1
      ind lám glosses manu
  2. arm
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 68a1
      doe láme glosses lacertus
  3. hand (as a unit of length)
  4. (abstract, figurative) prowess, accomplishment, power

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lámL láimL lámaH
Vocative lámL láimL lámaH
Accusative láimN láimL lámaH
Genitive láimeH, láme, lámae lámL lámN
Dative láimL lámaib lámaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: lámh
  • Manx: laue
  • Scottish Gaelic: làmh
  • → Old Norse: lámr

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
lám
also llám after a proclitic 		lám
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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