leam
See also: Leam
English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).
Verb edit
leam (third-person singular simple present leams, present participle leaming, simple past and past participle leamed)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English leme, from Old English lēoma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).
Noun edit
leam (plural leams)
- (UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
- 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters
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Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
leam (plural leams)
- A cord or strap for leading a dog.
- 1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section [IX]. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 48–49:
- The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.
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Galician edit
Verb edit
leam
- (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) third-person plural present indicative of lear
- (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of ler:
Latin edit
Noun edit
leam
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish lem. Cognates include Irish liom and Manx lhiam.
Pronunciation edit
- (Lewis) IPA(key): /lɔ̃ũm/, /ləm/
- (Uist, Barra, Skye, Sutherland) IPA(key): /lu(ː)m/ (as if spelled lium)
- (Argyll) IPA(key): /lɛm/
- Hyphenation: leam
Pronoun edit
leam
- first-person singular of le: with me; by me
- Is toil leam Glaschu. ― I like Glasgow. (literally, “Is pleasure with me Glasgow.”)
Inflection edit
Personal inflection of le | |||||||||
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Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
Singular | 1st | leam | leamsa | ||||||
2nd | leat | leatsa | |||||||
3rd m | leis | leis-san | |||||||
3rd f | leatha | leathase | |||||||
Plural | 1st | leinn | leinne | ||||||
2nd | leibh | leibhse | |||||||
3rd | leotha | leothasan |
References edit
- Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382
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leam
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References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58