lamm

From Middle High German and Old High German lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz. Cognate with German lahm, Dutch lam, English lame, Swedish lam.

lamm

1. (Uri) lame; hobbling, limping

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 65.

• (Revived Late Cornish) labm

From Middle Cornish lam, from Proto-Celtic *lanxsman. Cognate with Breton lamm, Irish léim, Manx lheim, Scottish Gaelic leum, and Welsh llam.

lamm m (plural lammow)

1. hop, jump, leap

lamm

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of lamma
2. second-person singular imperative of lamma and lemmel

• Rhymes: -am

lamm

1. singular imperative of lammen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lammen

From Old Swedish lamb, from Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos.

• IPA^(key): /lamː/

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lamm n

1. a lamb
2. lamb (as part of a dish – might get qualified as lammkött ["lamb meat"] otherwise)
3. (Gotland) a sheep

• On the island Gotland (known for its sheep), lamm is used for sheep and lammunge for lamb.
• damm, lamm and ramm are the three words in Swedish spelled with double final -mm (to avoid confusion with dam, lam and ram).

• lamm in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lamm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• malm