limmælum

Old English

Etymology

From lim +‎ -mǣlum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlimˌmæː.lum/

Adverb

limmǣlum

limb by limb

Descendants

Middle English: limmel, lymmele
- English: limbmeal, limb-meal, limb meal

Further reading

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

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