loam
/ləʊm/ · noun
Meaning
- A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
- A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
- To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
- Made of loam; consisting of loam.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
- Lehm(German)→
- leem(Dutch)→
- liem(fy)→
- Leem(stq)→
- *h₂leyH-(ine-pro)→
- *laimaz(gem-pro)→
- *laim(gmw-pro)→
- lām(ang)→
- lome(Middle English)→
- *h₂leyH-(ine-pro)→
- loam (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, der, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- 壚坶(Chinese) (bor)
- Leem(Luxembourgish) (cog)
- leira(Old Norse) (cog)
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