lemm
Breton
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *lim-ā- (“to sharpen”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1] Cognate with Cornish lym, Welsh llym.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editlemm
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “lim-a”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 239
Old Irish
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editlemm
- first-person singular of la
- 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. 29d27
- Ní mebul lemm cía fa·dam.
- I am not ashamed that I endure it.
- (literally, “There is no shame with me…”)
- 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. 29d27
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