léim
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish léimm, from Proto-Celtic *lang-smen- (compare Welsh llam), from Proto-Indo-European *legʷh- (“light, not heavy”). The verb is denominal from the noun; the Old Irish verb lingid gave Modern ling, which is now literary.
Noun
léim f (genitive singular léime, nominative plural léimeanna)
- verbal noun of léim
- jump
- (geography) chasm, promontory
Declension
Declension of léim
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- athléim m (“rebound”)
- léim a thabhairt do (bhó) (“to serve (a cow)”, verb)
- léim ailt f (“dislocation, spraining, of joint”)
- léim an daill f, léim chaorach sa duibheagán f (“leap in the dark”)
- léim an tsiosúir f (“scissors jump”)
- léim ard f (“high jump”)
- léim as bonn f, léim choirp f (“standing jump”)
- léim buinne f (“gush of water”)
- léim chuaille f (“pole vault”)
- léim éin f (“rising of bird”)
- léim fáis f (“sudden growth”)
- léim fhada f (“long jump”)
- léim giorria f (“hare's leap”)
- léim i leataobh f (“jump to one side; aberration”)
- léim láimhe f (“vault”)
- léim na srathrach f (“straddle jump”)
- léim reatha f (“running jump”)
- léim rúitín f (“dislocation, spraining, of ankle”)
- léim táilliúra f (“somersault performed with legs crossed”)
- léim uisce f (“water-jump”)
- léimneach (“jumping, leaping, bounding; flitting, changeable”, adj)
- léimneach f (“(act of) jumping”)
- léimneoir m (“jumper”)
- léimrásaíocht f (“chasing”)
- léimrás m (“steeplechase”)
Verb
léim (present analytic léimeann, future analytic léimfidh, verbal noun léim, past participle léimthe)
Conjugation
conjugation of léim (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
- aisléim (“recoil”, intransitive verb)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- léighim (obsolete)
Verb
léim
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “léim”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “léimm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
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