lomm

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *lummo-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (to bend; to peel, tear, flake off, damage), see also Lithuanian lùpti (to peel), Latvian lupt (to peel; eat), Proto-Slavic *lupiti (to peel).[1] Cognate with Welsh llwm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l͈om/

Adjective

lomm

  1. bare, naked
  2. smooth
  3. exact
  4. threadbare (of cloth)
  5. exact, strict (of a judge or judgement)
  6. pure, unadulterated (of a liquid)
  7. clear (of sounds)
  8. (phonology, of consonants) unlenited

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative lomm lomm lomm
Vocative loimm*
lomm**
Accusative lomm loimm
Genitive loimm lommae loimm
Dative lomm loimm lomm
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative loimm lomma
Vocative lommu
lomma
Accusative lommu
lomma
Genitive lomm
Dative lommaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Irish: lom
  • Manx: lhome
  • Scottish Gaelic: lom

Mutation

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

References

  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “lomm”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin pulmō

Noun

lomm f (plural lomms)

  1. (Surmiran) lung

Synonyms

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