name
Meaning 1
An English surname transferred from the place name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Alternative forms: Limb, Lumb, Lumm
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Standard Lemma guide
lum
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Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /lʌm/
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rhymes with -ʌm
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CMU ARPABET: L AH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A diminutive of the male given name Columbus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
Meaning 5
A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, specifically
Topics: business, mining
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noun
Meaning 6
A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 7
A deep pool, especially one in a riverbed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
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History
Etymology
As an English surname, from Middle English Lumb, from Old English Lumm, from lumm (“pool”). Analyzable as being from English lum (“pool”). As a Chinese surname, from Cantonese 林 (lam4).
Clipping of Columbus.
Borrowed from Scots lum, Early Scots lumb; further etymology uncertain, but probably from Cumbric *lümon, related to Welsh llumon (“chimney”) (obsolete), from Proto-Celtic *loimono. Possibly at least influenced by Old French lum (“light”), lume (“cooking fire”) (compare French lumière (“light; cavity or channel within a tube or tubular organ, lumen; opening”)), from Latin lūmen (“light; light source; opening through which light can penetrate such as an air-hole or window; opening or orifice in a water-pipe or funnel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”).
Uncertain; perhaps related to Old Norse lundr (“clump of trees, grove; (rare) tree”) (compare Danish lund (“grove”), Norwegian Bokmål lund, Norwegian Nynorsk lund (“grove”), Swedish lund (“grove”)).
Unknown. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (in their entry on Scots lum (“downpour”)) mentions a dialectal Middle English word lum(b) (“water hole in a mire; deep pool”) and suggests it might ultimately be related to lum (“chimney”).