luam

Latin

Verb

luam

1. inflection of luō:
   1. first-person singular future active indicative
   2. first-person singular present active subjunctive

Old Irish

Etymology

Conjectured to be from luae (“rudder”) +‎ -em (agent suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈u.əβ̃/, [ˈl͈u.aβ̃]

Noun

luäm m (nominative plural luamain)

1. pilot, steersman
   • 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. 4^a14

     .i. con·irchloiter .i. mad hé á luum ut di filio dicitur agebatur a spiritu.

     (glossing Latin aguntur) i.e. are driven, i.e. if He be their pilot like how the Son is said to be driven by the Spirit.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 69^a24

     .i. sain-écosc noe vel alii dicunt .i. luam

     (glossing Latin celox) i.e. a peculiar type of ship, or as others say, steersman.

Inflection

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	luam	luamainL	luamain
Vocative	luam	luamainL	luamnaH
Accusative	luamainN	luamainL	luamnaH
Genitive	luamon, luaman	luamon, luamanL	luamon, luamanN
Dative	luamainL, luamL	luamnaib	luamnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: lúam
  • Irish: luamh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
luäm also lluäm after a proclitic ending in a vowel	luäm pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “luam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [luˈam]

Verb

luam

1. first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of lua