luam

See also: lūam

Latin

Verb

luam

inflection of luō:
1. first-person singular future active indicative
2. first-person singular present active subjunctive

Old Irish

Etymology

Conjectured to be from luae (“rudder”) +‎ -em (agent suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl͈u.əβ̃/, [ˈl͈u.aβ̃]

Noun

luäm m (nominative plural luamain)

pilot, steersman
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^a14
  .i. con·irchloiter .i. mad hé á luum ut di filio dicitur agebatur a spiritu.
  (glossing Latin aguntur) i.e. are driven, i.e. if He be their pilot like how the Son is said to be driven by the Spirit.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 69^a24
  .i. sain-écosc noe vel alii dicunt .i. luam
  (glossing Latin celox) i.e. a peculiar type of ship, or as others say, steersman.

Inflection

Masculine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	luam	luamain^L	luamain
vocative	luam	luamain^L	luamna^H
accusative	luamain^N	luamain^L	luamna^H
genitive	luamon, luaman	luamon, luaman^L	luamon, luaman^N
dative	luamain^L, luam^L	luamnaib	luamnaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: lúam
- Irish: luamh

Mutation

Mutation of *luam*
radical	lenition	nasalization
luam also lluam in h-prothesis environments	luam pronounced with /l-/	luam also lluam

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “luam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [luˈam]

Verb

luam

first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of lua