lum
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain.
Pronunciation
Noun
lum (plural lums)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A chimney.
- 1768, Alexander Ross, Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess: a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect:
- Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam,
And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam;
And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer,
And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.
- 1785, Robert Burns, Halloween:
- 'Till, fuff! he started up the lum, / An' Jean had e'en a sair heart / To see't that night.
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair; 2), Edinburgh: Polygon, published 2006, →ISBN, page 277:
- they cleared the Manse and went up by the Mains, with the smell of the dung from its hot cattle-court, and the smell of the burning wood in its lums.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A woody valley.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A deep pool.
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
Variant of standard lumë.
Noun
lum m (plural lumenj, definite lumi, definite plural lumenjtë)
Adjective
lum
Ladin
Noun
lum f (plural lumes)
- (Gherdëina) light
Livonian
Etymology
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Noun
lum
Novial
Pronoun
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- accusative of lu
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin lūmen, from Proto-Indo-European *léwksmn̥, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”).
Noun
lum m (plural lums)
- light
- light source, such as a lamp or bulb
See also
Scots
Etymology
Origin uncertain; perhaps compare obsolete Welsh llumon (“chimney”).
Noun
lum (plural lums)
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