leamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /liːm/
• 韻: -iːm

語源 1

From Middle English lemen, from 古期英語 lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).

動詞

leam (三人称単数 現在形 leams, 現在分詞 leaming, 過去形および過去分詞形 leamed)

1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.

派生語

• leamer

語源 2

From Middle English leme, from 古期英語 lēoma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).

名詞

leam (複数形 leams)

1. (UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
   • 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 226649000:

     The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters

参考

• gleam

語源 3

See leamer, lien.

名詞

leam (複数形 leams)

1. A cord or strap for leading a dog.
   • 1808, Joseph Strutt; [Walter Scott], “Section [IX]. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], OCLC 23444103, pages 48–49:

     The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.

アナグラム

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, lema, male, meal, mela, mela-

Latin

名詞

leam

1. accusative singular of lea