lim

Clipping of English limit.

lim

1. (mathematics) limit

Clipping of English Limburgish or Dutch and Limburgish Limburgs.

lim

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Limburgish.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Limburgish terms

lim (plural lims)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of limb.
   • 1679, Thomas May (translator), Lucans Pharsalia: or, the Civil Wars of Rome, book 4, page 115:

     […] ſhe ſees his lims with ſweating ſpent, / And his neck dry’d, as when he did ſuſtaine / The heavens: […]

• lim sup

• ILM, Mil, MLI, MIL, mil, mil.

Borrowed from English lime.

lim m (plural limyow)

1. lime (mineral)
2. cement

• kalgh (“limestone”)
• limaval (“lime (fruit)”)

From Old Danish lim, from Old Norse lím.

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːˀm]

lim c (singular definite limen, plural indefinite lime)

1. glue

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːˀm]

lim

1. imperative of lime

• “lim” in Den Danske Ordbog

lim

1. indefinite accusative singular of limur

lim

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

For pronunciation and definitions of lim – see 啉 (“to drink; to drink alcohol”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 啉).

lim

1. indefinite accusative singular of limur
2. indefinite dative singular of limur

Borrowed from German Leim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlim/
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: lim

lim m inan

1. (rare, dated) glue

   Synonym: klej

• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “klej”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “klej”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “lim”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

lim m (plural lims)

1. limit

lim

1. alternative form of lym (“quicklime”)

lim

1. alternative form of lyme (“limb”)

From Old Norse lím.

lim n (definite singular limet, indefinite plural lim, definite plural lima or limene)

1. glue, paste (adhesive)

• superlim
• tapetlim

• lime (verb)

lim

1. imperative of lime

• “lim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse lím.

lim n (definite singular limet, indefinite plural lim, definite plural lima)

1. glue, paste (adhesive)

• limsniffar
• limstift
• superlim
• tapetlim

• “lim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse limr, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

lim m

1. limb
   • c. 1210, "Foræ enæ hand skal bøtæ halfa man bøtær", Scanian Law, chapter 95.

     […] ok um tær manz ok allæ þe limmir man ma hylia […]

     […] and of a man's toes and all the limbs he has to cover […]

• Danish: lem

From Old Norse lím.

lim n

1. glue

• Danish: lim

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

• leom, lym

• IPA^(key): /lim/
• Rhymes: -im

lim n (nominative plural limu)

2. limb, bodily member; branch (of tree etc)
   • c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 4:

     Wearm lim ġebundenne bǣg hwīlum bersteð.

     Warm limb sometimes shatters the bound ring.

Strong a-stem:

The plural forms also appear with the vowel eo instead of i: Strong a-stem:

• limmǣlum

• Middle English: lyme, leme, lim, lime, lym, limæ, leome (Early Middle English)
  • English: limb
  • Scots: limb, lim
  • ⇒ Yola: lemethès

From Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-. Cognate with Middle Dutch līm (Dutch lijm), Old High German līm (German Leim), Old Norse lím (Swedish lim). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Latin līmus (“mud”).

• IPA^(key): /liːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

līm m

2. glue; mortar, paste, lime

Strong a-stem:

• ġelīman

• Middle English: lym, lim, lime, lyme
  • English: lime

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “lim”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲimʲ/

lim

1. first-person singular of la

From Old Norse limr, from Proto-Germanic *limuz.

• IPA^(key): [léɪm], [lǿʏm]

lim m

1. limb

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle High German līm.^[1]First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /lîm/

lȉm m inan (Cyrillic spelling ли̏м)

1. sheet metal
2. (by extension, hyponym, Croatia) tinplate
3. (by extension) tin (silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 50)

   Synonyms: (Croatia) kositar, (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) kalaj

• limar
• lìmen
• limenka

Symbol	Pt	Au	Ag	Fe	Al	Sn	Cu
metal	platina	zlato	srebro	željezo	aluminij	lim	bakar

• “lim”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

From Proto-Slavic *jьlьmъ.

lìm m inan

1. elm (tree of the genus Ulmus)

   Synonym: brest (more common)

• “lim”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “lim”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From Old Norse lím.

lim n

1. glue

• “lim”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

• mil, mil.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lim˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lim˧˧]

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(classifier cây) lim • (林, 菻, 󱥷, 󱕨)

1. kind of fine timber native to Vietnam (Erythrophleum fordii)

• lim sẹt

lim (genitive lima, plural lims)

1. limb