liom

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lium, conflated with friumm.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲʊmˠ/, [lʲɯmˠ]^[1]
(Connacht) IPA^(key): (stressed) /lʲʊmˠ/, /lʲɔmˠ/, /lʲɞmˠ/, (unstressed) /lʲəmˠ/^[2]^[3]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /lʲɨ̞mˠ/, /lʲʌmˠ/^[4]

Pronoun

liom (emphatic liomsa)

first-person singular of le: with me, to me

References

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 80, page 43
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume I, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 196
^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 308
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 103, page 41

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

lidom

Noun

liom f

(dialectal, nonstandard) dative plural of li
- 2000, Astrid Krog Halse, Målet hennar mor, page 127:
  Ligg og kvile her i liom
  [I] lie and rest here in the mountainside.

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