# lám
## Hokkien

* 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).

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlaːm]
* Rhymes: -aːm

### Interjection

lám
* you see! well! lo! there!
    Lám, lám, végre találkoztunk! ― Well, well, we've finally met!
* (dialectal) Used in the expression hadd lám (“let me see”). Here lám is the contraction of lássam.

### References

* ↑ lám in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* 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

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -auːm

### Noun

lám
* indefinite dative plural of lá

## Klallam
### Noun

lám
* beer

## Macanese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Cantonese 欖 / 榄 (laam$^2$).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lam/

#### Noun

lám
* Chinese olive (Canarium album)
* European olive (Olea europaea)

##### Usage notes

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

### Etymology 2

From Portuguese lã, possibly further influenced by Cantonese 冷 (laang$^1$, “wool yarn”). Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɐŋ/, /laŋ/

#### Noun

lám
* wool
    tecê lám ― to weave wool
    bola di lám ― ball of wool

### References

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

## 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: [l͈aːβ̃]

### Noun

lám f (genitive láme or láime or lámae, nominative plural láma)
* 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$^a$5
    precept dosom fri dei et saithar ho lámaib in nocteto him [there is] teaching by day and labor with hands by night
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 36$^b$1
    ind lám glosses manu
* arm
** c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 68$^a$1
    doe láme glosses lacertus
* hand (as a unit of length)
* (abstract, figurative) prowess, accomplishment, power

#### Inflection

Feminine ā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | lám$^L$ | láim$^L$ | láma$^H$ |
| Vocative | lám$^L$ | láim$^L$ | láma$^H$ |
| Accusative | láim$^N$ | láim$^L$ | láma$^H$ |
| Genitive | láime$^H$, láme, lámae | lám$^L$ | lám$^N$ |
| Dative | láim$^L$ | lámaib | lámaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Derived terms

* lámann (“glove”)

#### Descendants

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

### Mutation

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), “lám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language