Hungarian

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. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Icelandic

Noun

lám

1. indefinite dative plural of lá

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. 9^a5

     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. 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, figuratively) prowess, accomplishment, power

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• lámann ‎(“glove”)

Descendants

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

Mutation

References

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