luam

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word luam. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word luam, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say luam in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word luam you have here. The definition of the word luam will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofluam, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Latin

Verb

luam

inflection of luō:
1. first-person singular future active indicative
2. first-person singular present active subjunctive

Old Irish

Etymology

Conjectured to be from luae (“rudder”) +‎ -em (agent suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl͈u.əβ̃/,

Noun

luäm m (nominative plural luamain)

pilot, steersman
- 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. 4^a14
  .i. con·irchloiter .i. mad hé á luum ut di filio dicitur agebatur a spiritu.
  (glossing Latin aguntur) i.e. are driven, i.e. if He be their pilot like how the Son is said to be driven by the Spirit.
- 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. 69^a24
  .i. sain-écosc noe vel alii dicunt .i. luam
  (glossing Latin celox) i.e. a peculiar type of ship, or as others say, steersman.

Inflection

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	luam	luamain^L	luamain
Vocative	luam	luamain^L	luamna^H
Accusative	luamain^N	luamain^L	luamna^H
Genitive	luamon, luaman	luamon, luaman^L	luamon, luaman^N
Dative	luamain^L, luam^L	luamnaib	luamnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: lúam
- Irish: luamh

Mutation

Mutation of *luam*
radical	lenition	nasalization
luäm also lluäm after a proclitic ending in a vowel	luäm pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “luam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Verb

luam

first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of lua

Wikious

Boobota

Sagapedia