lume – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of lume

Noun: lume
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mlume
Plural mlumes

Sample Sentences

  • Ay, meu fillo, alegria do meu curaçõ, lume dos meus ollos, solaz da mjna velleçe! (Woe! My son, joy of my heart, light of my eyes, solace of my old age!) [1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I. E. O. P. F, page 481:]
  • ca despois que anoyteçeu tornou outrosí escuro speso a sobreguisa, et nõ fazía luar nẽ lume, pouco nẽ mais. (because after nightfall it became dark, and this darkness was exceedingly thick, and it was neither moonlight nor light, no less or more) [1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:]
  • se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua (if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception: that in the ground floor there should be the needed and sufficient skylights for giving light to said ground floor, as long as they are used for defending) [1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:]
  • A hipótese básica é que os lumes, por máis que sexan intencionados, non obedecen a unha lóxica económica de potencia irregular de ano en ano, senón a causas continuamente presentes (The basic hypothesis is that forest fires, even being caused intentionally, don't follow year after year an economic logic of irregular potential, but instead causes that are continuously present) [1990, Xaquín Fernández Leiceaga, Economia (politica) do monte galego, page 103:]

Nouns inflected like lume

miligramo, mililitro, acontecemento, urodelo, ancoradoiro, vimieiro, serrón, sesego, sedeño, iceberg, sarrio, sabuio, sabugo, sabujo, sabuxo, sabelo, sangue, saibro, saltón, salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lume, from Latin lūmen. Cognate with Portuguese lume, Asturian llume, Spanish lumbre. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'lume', Old Portuguese Nouns 'lume', Latin Nouns 'lūmen', Portuguese Nouns 'lume', Asturian Nouns 'llume', Spanish Nouns 'lumbre'.

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