lomm

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *luxsmos, 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”). 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

*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

Mutation of lomm

radical	lenition	nasalization
lomm also llomm after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lomm pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• lom (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Latin pulmō

Noun

lomm f (plural lomms)

1. (Surmiran) lung

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) leav
• (Surmiran) lev
• (Puter, Vallader) pulmun