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lemm

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Breton Etymology Pronunciation Adjective References Old Irish Pronunciation Pronoun

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 lym, Welsh llym.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmː/

Adjective

lemm

sharp

References

[1]
Matasović, Ranko (2009) “lim-a”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 239

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. 29^d27
  Ní mebul lemm cía fa·dam.
  I am not ashamed that I endure it.
  (literally, “There is no shame with me…”)

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