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loman

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Finnish

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Noun

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loman

  1. genitive singular of loma

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *lomanā. Cognate with archaic Welsh llyfan, Breton louan (belt, strap), and Cornish lovan (rope).[1]

Noun

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loman f (nominative plural lomna)

  1. cord, rope
    • 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. 17d3
      sainchenelæ srogill imbí .xl. loman
      a special type of whip wherein are 40 strips of leather

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lomanL lomainL lomnaH
Vocative lomanL lomainL lomnaH
Accusative lomainN lomainL lomnaH
Genitive lomnaeH lomanL lomanN
Dative lomainL lomnaib lomnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: loman

Mutation

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Mutation of loman
radical lenition nasalization
loman
also lloman after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
loman
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lomanā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 244

Further reading

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lôːman/
  • Hyphenation: lo‧man

Adjective

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lȏman (Cyrillic spelling ло̑ман, definite lȏmnī, comparative lomniji)

  1. breakable
  2. fragile (of a person)

Declension

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From lo (law) +‎ man (man).

Noun

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loman

  1. lawyer
    Synonym: loya