lim – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of lim

Noun: lim
Gender: n

Nominative

Singularlim; līm
Plurallimu; leomu; līmas

Genitive

Singularlimes; līmes
Plurallima; leoma; līma

Dative

Singularlime; līme
Plurallimum; leomum; līmum

Accusative

Singularlim; līm
Plurallimu; leomu; līmas

Sample Sentences

  • Wearm lim ġebundenne bǣg hwīlum bersteð. (Warm limb sometimes shatters the bound ring.) [c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 4:]

Nouns inflected like lim

lim,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *limu, probably related to *liþu- (whence liþ). Cognate with Old Norse limr. See: Old Norse Nouns 'limr'.

Verbs referencing "lim"

English Nouns limb, Middle English Nouns lyme.

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