Where does “limeriko” come from?

limeriko (Esperanto) comes from English Limerick, from Irish Luimneach, from Irish lom na n-each — grassless of the horses.

limeriko (Esperanto): limerick

Definitions

  1. limerick

Ancestry of “limeriko”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishLimerickA humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence
2IrishLuimneach—
3Irishlom na n-eachgrassless of the horses
Every word from Irish lom na n-each →Every word from Irish Luimneach →Every word from English Limerick →