The OED also notes of the later verb form, “Old English had lęmian of equivalent formation (= Old Norse lęmja) which did not survive into Middle English.” The subsequent noun and verb forms of lame both descend from the earlier adjectival form.ĭefinitions: In both Old and Middle English, lame occurs most frequently as an adjective meaning “disabled,” “impaired,” or “crippled.” It is usually connected to or applied to the limbs, particularly feet and legs, as seen in the compound limmlaman found in one of Wulfstan’s homilies. The Oxford English Dictionary also lists Old Saxon lamo (Dutch lam), Old Norse lame (weak), and Old Germanic *lamo- (an ablaut-variant is *lômjo- in Old High German luomi). Latin claudus and paralyticus Old English wanhal Middle English palsy, feble,and crokyd.Įtymology: The term most directly corresponds to Old Frisian lam, lom and Old High German lam. to injure, wound, disable maim or disfigure injure good name or reputation, damage lameness withouten ~, without defect or blemishġ. (f) of a gore in a garment: crooked, illcutġ. (e) of language, verse, meter: halting, defective make ~, enfeeble (the wits), damage (a reputation) (d) of persons or things: incapacitated, helpless weak, ineffectual deficient ~ of,ĭeficient in (some respect), wanting in ben ~, to decline in reputation, become obscure halt and ~, halting and lame ~ o fot, lame ~ on eies, having weak eyes, almost blind ~ leier, lying crippled, helpless in bed of an ox: unable to walk of limbs: crippled of lips or tongue: unable to speak, mute also fig.
(a) Of persons: crippled in the feet, lame also, crippled in the hands disabled by disease, old age, etc. Lame, disabled in the limbs, maimed, crippled, weak, paralysed, palsied, paralyticįorms: OE lama, (lame), loma, ME lomme, ME lome, ME lam, ME– lame, lam, lome, lomme & (early pl.) lamen. –From Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionaryġ. Lame ‘A stab of a bayonet which has lamed me to the ground.’).ī. of an argument, excuse, account, narrative, or the like. Maimed, halting imperfect or defective, unsatisfactory as wanting a part or parts. said of the limb also of footsteps, etc.Ī. of, in, †on, †with (the crippled part).Į. disabled in the foot or leg, so as to walk haltingly or be unable to walk.
Disabled through injury to, or defect in, a limb spec. Disabled or impaired in any way weak, infirm paralysed unable to move.ī. Old English had lęmian of equivalent formation (= Old Norse lęmja) which did not survive into Middle English.įorms: OE lama, ( lame), loma, ME lomme, ME lome, ME lam, ME– lame.Ī. Middle High German lüeme dull, slack, gentle, early modern German lumm, whence lümmel, “blockhead.”įrom the same root is Old Church Slavoni clomitĭ to break. Old Germanic *lamo an ablaut variant is *lômjo in Old High German luomi Old High German lam (Middle High German lam, modern German lahm) Old English lama, lǫma (the weak declension is, from some unexplained cause, used in indefinite as well as definite context, the form in a being, moreover, commonly used for all genders), corresponding to Old Frisian lam, lom
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