лём

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *lam ~ *lom, inherited from Proto-Uralic *ďëme (“black cherry, bird cherry”); whence Finnish tuomi, Estonian toom, Northern Sami duobma, Komi-Zyrian льӧм (ľöm) and Northern Mansi ля̄м (lâ̄m).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʲom/

Noun

лём • (ľom)

  1. bird cherry (also called hagberry, hackberry), a cherry tree native to northern Eurasia
    Synonyms: лём чувто (ľom čuvto), лёмзёркс (ľomźorks)
  2. flood plain, water meadow

Declension

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References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “лём”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #122 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Keresztes, László (1986), Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *lom (“float, fishing float”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [lʲoˑm˧], [ɮʲoˑm˧]

Noun

лём ~ лөм (lōm) n (plural лёмн)

  1. swimmer float, fishing float, cork on a fishing net

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 482

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 263
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