Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *hlammiz.

Noun edit

hlemmr m (genitive hlemms, plural hlemmar)

  1. trapdoor

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: hlemmur
  • Faroese: lemmur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lem
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lem
  • Swedish: läm
  • Danish: lem

References edit

  • hlemmr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press