lemm

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Breton

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Etymology

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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

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Adjective

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lemm

  1. sharp

References

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  1. ^ 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

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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lemm

  1. 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…”)