# leme
## English
### Alternative forms

* leam, leem

### Etymology

From Middle English leem, leme, leam, from Old English lēoma (“light, brightness”); akin to light.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːm/
* Rhymes: -iːm

### Noun

leme (plural lemes)
* (obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
** 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.

### Verb

leme (third-person singular simple present lemes, present participle leming, simple past and past participle lemed)
* (obsolete, intransitive) To shine.

### References

* “leme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Emel, mele, Elem, elem., elem, LEEM

## Farefare
### Etymology

Cognate with Moore leemse (“to taste”)

### Pronunciation

/lè.mè/

### Verb

leme (imperfect lemnɩ, lɛmna)
* to taste

## Galician
### Etymology

Obscure. Perhaps from Basque lema, ultimately from Latin temō. Alternatively, from a Germanic origin. Compare French limon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛme̝/

### Noun

leme m (plural lemes)
* (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
    Synonym: temón
* (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)
    Synonym: temón
* (figurative) good judgement
    Synonyms: sentidiño, xuízo

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “leme”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “leme”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “leme”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “leme”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* leme on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{gl}$

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

### Noun

leme f
* fishbone
* (generally prickly) stalk or other part of a plant

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: leem

### Further reading

* “leme”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “leme (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English lēoma, from Proto-West Germanic *leuhmō.
Forms with /ɛː/ are unexpected; they may be due to the influence of beem and gleem.

#### Alternative forms

* leem, lem, leom, lewme, lume, lym, lyme
* leame, leome, lome (Early Middle English)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleːm(ə)/, /ˈlɛːm(ə)/

#### Noun

leme (plural lemes)
* Fire or an instance of it; a blaze.
* Light, brightness, or an instance of it:
** A gleam; a short burst of light.
** A ray or column of light.
*** 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:Firis with red lemes.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (figuratively) Wisdom, revelation, or one who grants it.

##### Descendants

* English: leam
* Scots: leim, leme

##### References

* “lẹ̄m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

leme (plural lemes)
* Alternative form of lyme

## Mokilese
### Verb

leme
* (transitive) to think about

#### Derived terms

* lemlem

#### References

* Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unknown.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈlɛ.mɨ/
* Homophone: lê-me (Brazil)
* Rhymes: -emi
* Hyphenation: le‧me

### Noun

leme m (plural lemes)
* (nautical) rudder (underwater vane used to steer a vessel)
* (aeronautics) rudder (control surface of an aircraft)

#### Derived terms

* leme de direção
* leme de profundidade
* leme horizontal
* leme vertical
* perder o leme