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    lem-1

    English meaning: to crush; fragile

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “zerbrechen; zerbrochen, weich”

    Material: Gk. νωλεμές, -έως “ fatigueless “, maybe from “not zusammenbrechend”, due to eines with preposition o- refined *ὄ-λεμος n. *ὀ-λεμής; Ven. MN Lemetor; O.Ir. ro-la(i)methar “wagt”, Welsh llafasu “venture, risk”, Corn. lauasos ds., M.Bret. lafuaez “licit”, also Welsh cyflafan “Untat”, perhaps to M.Ir. la(i)me “axe”; with other English meaning: M.Ir. lem “fade, crazy, impotent”, O.Ir. lemnat “Eibisch”, M.Ir. lemlacht, lemnacht ‘sũße milk”, Welsh llefrith, Bret. livriz ds., M.Welsh llyveithin “weak” (*lemekt-); perhaps Alb. lemë, Gheg lamë “threshing floor, Ölmũhle” = Russ. lom; O.H.G. O.S. lam (*lom-), O.Ice. lami “lame, crippled “, O.H.G. lemmen, asächs. lemmian “lähmen”, O.E. lemian “ds., tame (ein horse)”, O.Ice. lemia “hit, entzweischlagen; hinder”, ōgrade O.H.G. luomi “faint, languid, nachgiebig, mild”, M.H.G. lũemen, luomen “languish”, reduced grade O.Ice. luma “loslassen”, Alem. lumme ‘slack become”, Ger. dial. lumm ‘slack”, in addition Ger. Lũmmel; M.H.G.lunzen “light drowse “, E.Fris. lōm “ lamed, hinkend, faint, languid”, Swe. lōma “ stiff or schwerfällig go”; ē-stuf.: Nor. laam “lame”; Ltv. l”imstu, l”imt, Lith. lìmti “under a load zusammenbrechen”, O.Pruss. limtwei “break, rupture”; Lith. lémti “es fũgen, vorausbestimmen”, Ltv. lem̃t “decide, define, ordain, determine, adjudicate”; Lith. lamìnti, causative lámdyti “ausbilden, trainieren”; in addition probably also Lith. lúomas “kind of, Gattung”; O.Bulg. loml”jǫ, lomiti “break, rupture”, -sę ‘sich abmũhen”, Russ. lom “break”, pl. lómy “Gliederreißen” etc.; O.Bulg. prělamati “break, rupture” etc.; e-grade in O.Sor. lémić “break, rupture”, probably also Church Slavic lemešь “plough” (from an es-stem, as νωλεμές), Ltv. lemesis “ plowshare “; with ē-grade Ser.-Cr. lȉjemüm, lijèmati “hit”.

    References: WP. II 433 f., WH. I 760, Loth RC 39, 67 f., Lidén Mél. Vising 378.