lim
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lim
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lim (plural lims)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of limb
- 1679, Thomas May (translator), Lucans Pharsalia: or, the Civil Wars of Rome, book 4, page 115:
- […] ſhe ſees his lims with ſweating ſpent, / And his neck dry’d, as when he did ſuſtaine / The heavens: […]
- 1679, Thomas May (translator), Lucans Pharsalia: or, the Civil Wars of Rome, book 4, page 115:
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Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Danish lim, from Old Norse lím.
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lim c (singular definite limen, plural indefinite lime)
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lim
- imperative of lime
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- “lim” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faroese edit
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lim
Galician edit
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lim
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ler
Hokkien edit
For pronunciation and definitions of lim – see 啉 (“to drink; to drink alcohol”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 啉). |
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lim
Kashubian edit
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lim m inan
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lim m (plural lims)
Middle English edit
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lim
- Alternative form of lym (“quicklime”)
Etymology 2 edit
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lim
- Alternative form of lyme (“limb”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
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lim n (definite singular limet, indefinite plural lim, definite plural lima or limene)
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Related terms edit
- lime (verb)
Etymology 2 edit
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lim
- imperative of lime
References edit
- “lim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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lim n (definite singular limet, indefinite plural lim, definite plural lima)
Derived terms edit
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- “lim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse limr, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.
Noun edit
lim m
- limb
- c. 1210, "Foræ enæ hand skal bøtæ halfa man bøtær", Scanian Law, chapter 95.
- […] ok um tær manz ok allæ þe limmir man ma hylia […]
- […] and of a man's toes and all the limbs he has to cover […]
- c. 1210, "Foræ enæ hand skal bøtæ halfa man bøtær", Scanian Law, chapter 95.
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- Danish: lem
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lim n
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- Danish: lim
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *limu, probably related to *liþu- (whence liþ). Cognate with Old Norse limr.
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lim n (nominative plural limu)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-. Cognate with Middle Dutch līm (Dutch lijm), Old High German līm (German Leim), Old Norse lím (Swedish lim). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Latin līmus (“mud”).
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līm m
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- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) chapter LIM, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Irish edit
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lim
Scanian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse limr, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.
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lim m
Serbo-Croatian edit
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From Middle High German līm.
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lȉm m (Cyrillic spelling ли̏м)
- sheet metal
- (by extension, hyponym, Croatia) tinplate
- (by extension, regional, Croatia) tin (silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 50)
- Synonym: (Croatia) kositar
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- (tin): kalaj (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia)
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Symbol | Pt | Au | Ag | Fe | Al | Sn | Cu |
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metal | platina | zlato | srebro | željezo | aluminij | lim | bakar |
Slovene edit
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From Proto-Slavic *jьlьmъ.
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lìm m inan
Further reading edit
- “lim”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish edit
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lim n
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Declension of lim | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lim | limmet | lim | limmen |
Genitive | lims | limmets | lims | limmens |
Further reading edit
- lim in Svensk ordbok.
- lim in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
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(classifier cây) lim
Volapük edit
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lim (nominative plural lims)