lam

noun. echo

Cognates

• north S. lóm “echo”

Derivations

• √LAM “(inarticulate voiced) sound”

Element in

• S. Lammoth “Great Echo” ✧ S/106
• S. Lanthir Lamath “Waterfall of Echoing Voices” ✧ PM/349

Variations

• lam ✧ S/106 (lam)

lam

noun. physical tongue

lam

tongue

_ n. _tongue. Q. lambe. >> lammen

lam

noun. language

lam

noun. (physical) tongue; language, (physical) tongue; language, [G.] speech

Cognates

• Q. lambë “language, tongue, dialect” ✧ PE17/046; PE17/046; VT39/15; WJ/394
• Q. lamba “(physical) tongue” ✧ WJ/394

Derivations

• ✶lambē “tongue, language, dialect” ✧ VT39/15; WJ/394
  • √LAB “lick, move the tongue” ✧ VT39/15
  • ✶labmē “*language” ✧ WJ/416
• ✶lambā “physical tongue” ✧ WJ/394
  • √LAB “lick, move the tongue”
  • ✶labmā “*(physical) tongue” ✧ WJ/416

Element in

• S. fennas nogothrim, lasto beth lammen “doorway of the Dwarf-folk listen to the word of my tongue” ✧ LotR/0307; PE17/046
• S. Lammas “Account of Tongues”
• S. lammen “of tongue, spoken with tongue” ✧ PE17/046
• ᴺS. tallam “conlang”
• ᴺS. úlam “dumb, unable to speak, (lit.) untongued”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶lambē > lam(m)	[lambē] > [lambe] > [lamb] > [lamm] > [lamm] > [lam]	✧ VT39/15
✶lambē > lam	[lambē] > [lambe] > [lamb] > [lamm] > [lamm] > [lam]	✧ WJ/394
✶lambā > lam	[lambā] > [lamba] > [lamb] > [lamm] > [lamm] > [lam]	✧ WJ/394

Variations

• lam ✧ PE17/046; WJ/394; WJ/394
• lam(m) ✧ VT39/15

lam

echoing voice

pl. laim, coll. pl. lammath.

lam

tongue

(both body-part and = ”dialect, language”) lam (pl. laim, coll. pl. lammath). (WJ:394, 416) Not: lam is also used = ”echo, voice, echoing voice”.

lam

tongue

(pl. laim, coll. pl. lammath). (WJ:394, 416) Not: lam is also used = ”echo, voice, echoing voice”.

lam

echoing voice

lam, pl. laim, coll. pl. lammath.

lam

echoing voice)

specially ECHOING VOICE) lam, pl. laim, coll. pl. lammath

glam

shouting

glam (i **lam) (din, uproar, confused yelling of beasts; tumult, confused noise; a body of Orcs), pl. glaim (in glaim), coll. pl. glammath**

glamor

echo

(noun) glamor (i **lamor), banalogical pl. glemyr (in glemyr**). Archaic *glamr, glambr. ECHO (or, sound of voices) lammad, pl. lemmad. May also be spelt with a single m.

glamor

echo

(i ’lamor), banalogical pl. glemyr (in glemyr). Archaic ✱glamr, glambr.

lammad

echo

pl. lemmad. May also be spelt with a single m.

lammas

account of tongues

lammen

my tongue

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