# leam
## English
### Alternative forms

* leem, leme

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːm

### Etymology 1

From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).

#### Verb

leam (third-person singular simple present leams, present participle leaming, simple past and past participle leamed)
* (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.

##### Derived terms

* leamer

### Etymology 2

From Middle English leme, from Old English lēoma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).

#### Noun

leam (plural leams)
* (UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
** 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters

#### See also

* gleam

### Etymology 3

See leamer, lien.

#### Noun

leam (plural leams)
* A cord or strap for leading a dog.
** 1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section [IX]. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 48–49:The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.

### Anagrams

* Elma, mela, mela-, amel, -meal, meal, alme, Lema, male-, Male, male, lame, lamé, Elam, Malé, lema

## Galician
### Verb

leam
* (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) third-person plural present indicative of lear
* (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of ler:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## Latin
### Noun

leam
* accusative singular of lea

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish lem. Cognates include Irish liom and Manx lhiam.

### Pronunciation

* (Lewis) IPA: /lɔ̃ũm/, (unstressed) /ləm/ (as if spelled lium)
* (Uist, Barra, Wester Ross) IPA: /liũːm/, (unstressed) /liũm/ (as if spelled lium)
* (Argyll) IPA: /lɛm/
* Hyphenation: leam

### Pronoun

leam
* first-person singular of le: with me; by me
    Is toil leam Glaschu. ― I like Glasgow. (literally, “Is pleasure with me Glasgow.”)

#### Inflection
### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN

### Further reading

* Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 382

## Yola
### Etymology

Borrowed from Irish léim.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːm/

### Noun

leam
* jump

#### Derived terms

* murreen-leam

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58