lám

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lam"

Hungarian

Etymology

Contraction of látom (“I see”), lát (“to see”) +‎ -om (personal suffix).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈlaːm]

Interjection

lám

  1. you see! well! lo! there!
    Lám, lám, végre találkoztunk! ― Well, well, we've finally met!
  2. (dialectal) Used in the expression hadd lám (“let me see”). Here lám is the contraction of lássam.

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -auːm

Noun

lám

  1. indefinite dative plural of lá

Klallam

Noun

lám

  1. beer

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlāmā (compare Welsh llaw), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂ (“palm, hand”) (compare Latin palma, Greek παλάμη (palámē)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /l͈aːṽ/

Noun

lám f (genitive láme or láime or lámae, nominative plural láma)

  1. hand
    • 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. 9a5
      precept dosom fri dei et saithar ho lámaib in nocte
      glosses operantes manibus nostris
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 36b1
      ind lám glosses manu
  2. arm
    • 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. 68a1
      doe láme glosses lacertus
  3. hand (as a unit of length)
  4. (abstract, figuratively) prowess, accomplishment, power

Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lámL láimL láma
Vocative lámL láimL láma
Accusative láimN láimL láma
Genitive láime, láme, lámae lámL lámN
Dative láimL lámaib lámaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
lám
also llám after a proclitic		 lám
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/		 lám
also llám after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • “lám” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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