лємже

Inherited from Old Slovak lenže, *lemže. By surface analysis, univerbation of лєм (ljem) +‎ же (že). Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn лемже (lemže) and Slovak lenže.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʎɛmʒɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛmʒɛ
• Hyphenation: лєм‧же

лємже (ljemže)

1. but, except (introduces a contrary clause)

   Near-synonyms: алє (alje), но (no)

   сцeли го биц, лємже вон ше од нїх нє бал

   sceli ho bic, ljemže von še od njix nje bal

   they wanted to beat him up, but he was not afraid of them

лємже (ljemže)

1. but, just

   лємже як ти думаш тото длуство врациц?

   ljemže jak ti dumaš toto dlustvo vracic?

   just how do you intend to repay this debt?

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “лємже”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “lenže”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC