luam

Latin

Verb

luam

  1. inflection of luō:
    1. first-person singular future active indicative
    2. first-person singular present active subjunctive

Old Irish

Etymology

Conjectured to be from luae (“rudder”) +‎ -em (agent suffix).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈u.əṽ/

Noun

luäm m (nominative plural luamain)

  1. pilot, steersman
    • 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. 4a14
      .i. con·irchloiter .i. mad hé á luum ut di filio dicitur agebatur a spiritu.
      (glossing Latin aguntur) i.e. are driven, i.e. if He be their pilot like how the Son is said to be driven by the Spirit.
    • 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. 69a24
      .i. sain-écosc noe vel alii dicunt .i. luam
      (glossing Latin celox) i.e. a peculiar type of ship, or as others say, steersman.

Inflection
Masculine n-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative luam luamainL luamain
Vocative luam luamainL luamnaH
Accusative luamainN luamainL luamnaH
Genitive luamon, luaman luamon, luamanL luamon, luamanN
Dative luamainL, luamL luamnaib luamnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: lúam

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

Further reading

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [luˈam]

Verb

luam

  1. first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of lua
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