leam

• leem, leme

• IPA^(key): /liːm/

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• Rhymes: -iːm

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

leam (third-person singular simple present leams, present participle leaming, simple past and past participle leamed)

1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.

• leamer

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”).

leam (plural leams)

1. (UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
   • 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volumes (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

• gleam

See leamer, lien.

leam (plural leams)

1. 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.

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

leam

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

leam

1. accusative singular of lea

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

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /lɔ̃ũm/, /ləm/
• (Uist, Barra, Skye, Sutherland) IPA^(key): /lu(ː)m/ (as if spelled lium)
• (Argyll) IPA^(key): /lɛm/
• Hyphenation: leam

leam

1. first-person singular of le: with me; by me

   Is toil leam Glaschu. ― I like Glasgow. (literally, “Is pleasure with me Glasgow.”)

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

Borrowed from Irish léim.

• IPA^(key): /liːm/

leam

1. jump

• murreen-leam

• 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