lemm
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *lim-ā- (“to sharpen”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).[1] Cognate with Cornish lymm, Welsh llym.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛmː/
Adjective
lemm
References
- ^ 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lʲemʲ/
Pronoun
lemm
- 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