lám

For pronunciation and definitions of lám – see 攬 (“to grasp, to take hold of; to monopolize; to control; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 攬).

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaːm]
• Rhymes: -aːm

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.

• lám in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• Rhymes: -auːm

lám

1. indefinite dative plural of lá

lám

1. beer

Borrowed from Cantonese 欖／榄 (laam²).

• IPA^(key): /lam/

lám

1. Chinese olive (Canarium album)
2. European olive (Olea europaea)

• The Macanese term generally refers to the Chinese fruit which is similar to a European olive, and eaten either sweet or savoury.

From Portuguese lã, possibly further influenced by Cantonese 冷 (laang¹, “wool yarn”). Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”).

• IPA^(key): /lɐŋ/, /laŋ/

lám

1. wool

   tecê lám ― to weave wool

   bola di lám ― ball of wool

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#l

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

• IPA^(key): [l͈aːβ̃]

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. 9^a5

     precept dosom fri dei et saithar ho lámaib in nocte

     to him [there is] teaching by day and labor with hands by night

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 36^b1

     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. 68^a1

     doe láme glosses lacertus

3. hand (as a unit of length)
4. (abstract, figurative) prowess, accomplishment, power

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

• lámann (“glove”)

• Irish: lámh
• Manx: laue
• Scottish Gaelic: làmh
• → Old Norse: lámr
  • Faroese: lámur
  • Icelandic: lámur

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language