Where does “lom” come from?

lom (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German lam, from Old Saxon lam, from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic lamaz, from Proto-Indo-European h₃lemH- — broken; weak, broken, soft.

lom (Plautdietsch): lame

Definitions

  1. lame

Ancestry of “lom”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanlam—
2Old Saxonlam—
3Proto-West Germanic*lam—
4Proto-Germaniclamazlame; withered, defective
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃lemH-broken; weak, broken, soft
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃lemH- →Every word from Proto-Germanic lamaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *lam →