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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish límaid (“sharpens, grinds, polishes”). Perhaps borrowed from or related to Latin līmō (“I sharpen”). (Compare Welsh llifio (“whet, hone”) from Latin līma (“file”).)
Verb
líomh (present analytic líomhann, future analytic líomhfaidh, verbal noun líomhadh, past participle líofa)
- (transitive) grind, sharpen; file, smooth, polish
- (transitive) erode, destroy
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “líomh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “límaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language