lim

lim

1. (mathematics) limit
2. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Limburgish.

lim (plural lims)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of limb
   • 1679, Thomas May (translator), Lucans Pharsalia: or, the Civil Wars of Rome, book 4, page 115:

     […] ſhe ſees his lims with ſweating ſpent, / And his neck dry’d, as when he did ſuſtaine / The heavens: […]

• lim sup

From Old Danish lim, from Old Norse lím.

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːˀm]

lim c (singular definite limen, plural indefinite lime)

1. glue

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːˀm]

lim

1. imperative of lime

• “lim” in Den Danske Ordbog

lim

1. indefinite accusative singular of limur

lim

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

lim

1. indefinite accusative singular of limur
2. indefinite dative singular of limur

Borrowed from German Leim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlim/
• Syllabification: lim

lim m inan

1. (rare, dated) glue

   Synonym: klej

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “klej”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• chapter LIM, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

lim m (plural lims)

1. limit

lim

1. Alternative form of lym (“quicklime”)

lim

1. Alternative form of lyme (“limb”)

From Old Norse lím.

lim n (definite singular limet, indefinite plural lim, definite plural lima or limene)

1. glue, paste (adhesive)

• superlim
• tapetlim

• lime (verb)

lim

1. imperative of lime

• “lim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse lím.

lim n (definite singular limet, indefinite plural lim, definite plural lima)

1. glue, paste (adhesive)

• limsniffar
• limstift
• superlim
• tapetlim

• “lim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse limr, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

lim m

1. limb
   • c. 1210, "Foræ enæ hand skal bøtæ halfa man bøtær", Scanian Law, chapter 95.

     […] ok um tær manz ok allæ þe limmir man ma hylia […]

     […] and of a man's toes and all the limbs he has to cover […]

• Danish: lem

From Old Norse lím.

lim n

1. glue

• Danish: lim

From Proto-West Germanic *limu, probably related to *liþu- (whence liþ). Cognate with Old Norse limr.

• leom

• IPA^(key): /lim/

lim n (nominative plural limu)

1. limb, bodily member; branch (of tree etc)

• limmǣlum

• Middle English: lyme, leme, lim, lime, lym; limæ, leome
  • English: limb
  • Scots: limb, lim
  • Yola: lemethès, lemethes

From Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-. Cognate with Middle Dutch līm (Dutch lijm), Old High German līm (German Leim), Old Norse lím (Swedish lim). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Latin līmus (“mud”).

• IPA^(key): /liːm/

līm m

1. glue; mortar, paste, lime

• ġelīman

• Middle English: lym, lim, lime, lyme
  • English: lime

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) chapter LIM, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /lʲimʲ/

lim

1. first-person singular of la

From Old Norse limr, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

• IPA^(key): [léɪm], [lǿʏm]

lim m

1. limb

From Middle High German līm.

lȉm m (Cyrillic spelling ли̏м)

1. sheet metal
2. (by extension, hyponym, Croatia) tinplate
3. (by extension, regional, Croatia) tin (silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 50)

   Synonym: (Croatia) kositar

• (tin): kalaj (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia)

• lìmen

From Proto-Slavic *jьlьmъ.

lìm m inan

1. elm (tree of the genus Ulmus)

   Synonym: brest (more common)

• “lim”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From Old Norse lím.

lim n

1. glue

• lim in Svensk ordbok.
• lim in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)

• mil, mil.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lim˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lim˧˧]

(classifier cây) lim

1. Erythrophleum fordii

lim (nominative plural lims)

1. limb