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lama

  • adjective
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Grammar
lama, loma, lame; adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§59;
Lame, disabled in the limbs, maimed, crippled, weak, paralysed, palsied, paralytic
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  • On sídan lama

    pleuriticus,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 10
      • ;
    • Som. 57, 25
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 19, 31
      • .

  • Lame

    debilis vel enervatus,

    • 77
      • ;
    • Som. 72, 22
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 45, 55
      • .

    Conclamatus i. commotus, convocatus, desperatus, vel loma,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 28
      • :

    conclamatus,

    • 105, 20
      • .

  • Ánne man se wæs lama

    hominem qui erat paraliticus,

    • Lk. Skt. 5, 18
      • .

  • Ic eom lama þearfa

    egenus et pauper sum,

    • Ps. Th. 108, 22
      • .

  • Ðá læg ðǽr sum creópere lama fram cildháde

    then lay there a cripple lame from his childhood,

    • Homl. Skt. 10, 25
      • .

  • Ánne bædrydan for eahte geárum lama

    a bedridden man paralysed for eight years,

    • 42
      • .

  • Man ne mót nán þing gehǽlan on restedagum þéh hyt lama beó nú hǽlþ hé ǽgðer ge healte ge blynde ge deáfe ge dumbe ge gebýgede laman and deófolseóce,

    • Nicod. 2
      • ;
    • Thw. 1, 29
      • .

  • Án mǽden seó wæs lama

    puella paralytica,

    • Bd. 3, 9
      • ;
    • S. 533, 5
      • .

  • Hé wæs lama and eallra his lima þénunge benumen

    deficiente penitus omni membrorum officio,

    • 5, 5
      • ;
    • S. 617, 37
      • .

  • Mid langre ádle laman legeres swíðe gehefigod

    longo paralysis morbo gravatam,

    • 3, 9
      • ;
    • S. 534, 5
      • .

  • Oft him feorran tó laman liomseóce cwómon healte hreófe and blinde

    oft to him from far cane the lame, the crippled, the halt, the leprous, and the blind,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 2425
      • ;
    • El. 1214
      • .

  • Lamena [lamana, MS. B.] hé is lǽce

    of the lame it is the leech,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 155
      • ;
    • Sal. 77
      • .

  • lii hit oftræd and hié tó loman gerénode ðæt hió mec ǽnigre note nytte beón ne meahton

    duos et 1. calcatos inutiles fecit,

    • Nar. 15, 26
      • .

  • Laman

    paralyticos,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 4, 24
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. lamo
:
O. Frs. lam, lom
:
Icel. lami, lama
:
Dan. lam lame, palsied, paralytic
:
O. H. Ger. lam claudus, mancus, debilis, paralyticus.
]
Similar entries
v. ád-, lim-lama.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lama.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/21066.

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