![]() Latin claudus and paralyticus Old English wanhal Middle English palsy, feble,and crokyd.Įtymology: The term most directly corresponds to Old Frisian lam, lom and Old High German lam. to injure, wound, disable maim or disfigure injure good name or reputation, damage lameness withouten ~, without defect or blemishġ. (f) of a gore in a garment: crooked, illcutġ. (e) of language, verse, meter: halting, defective make ~, enfeeble (the wits), damage (a reputation) (d) of persons or things: incapacitated, helpless weak, ineffectual deficient ~ of,ĭeficient in (some respect), wanting in ben ~, to decline in reputation, become obscure halt and ~, halting and lame ~ o fot, lame ~ on eies, having weak eyes, almost blind ~ leier, lying crippled, helpless in bed of an ox: unable to walk of limbs: crippled of lips or tongue: unable to speak, mute also fig. (a) Of persons: crippled in the feet, lame also, crippled in the hands disabled by disease, old age, etc. Lame, disabled in the limbs, maimed, crippled, weak, paralysed, palsied, paralyticįorms: OE lama, (lame), loma, ME lomme, ME lome, ME lam, ME– lame, lam, lome, lomme & (early pl.) lamen. –From Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionaryġ. Lame ‘A stab of a bayonet which has lamed me to the ground.’).ī. of an argument, excuse, account, narrative, or the like. Maimed, halting imperfect or defective, unsatisfactory as wanting a part or parts. said of the limb also of footsteps, etc.Ī. ![]() of, in, †on, †with (the crippled part).Į. disabled in the foot or leg, so as to walk haltingly or be unable to walk. Disabled through injury to, or defect in, a limb spec. ![]() Disabled or impaired in any way weak, infirm paralysed unable to move.ī. Old English had lęmian of equivalent formation (= Old Norse lęmja) which did not survive into Middle English.įorms: OE lama, ( lame), loma, ME lomme, ME lome, ME lam, ME– lame.Ī. Middle High German lüeme dull, slack, gentle, early modern German lumm, whence lümmel, “blockhead.”įrom the same root is Old Church Slavoni clomitĭ to break. Old Germanic *lamo an ablaut variant is *lômjo in Old High German luomi Old High German lam (Middle High German lam, modern German lahm) ![]() Old English lama, lǫma (the weak declension is, from some unexplained cause, used in indefinite as well as definite context, the form in a being, moreover, commonly used for all genders), corresponding to Old Frisian lam, lom ![]()
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