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Lum
Definitions
- 1 An English surname transferred from the place name.
"Alternative forms: Limb, Lumb, Lumm"
- 2 A diminutive of the male given name Columbus.
- 3 A surname from Chinese.
- 1 A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney. Northern-England, Scotland
"Now, by this time, the ſun begins to leam, / An' litt the hill-heads, wi' his morning beam, / An' birds, and beaſts, and fouk to be aſteer, / And ſtreams o' reek frae lumb heads to appear; […]"
- 2 A grove or wood; also, a woody valley. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
- 3 A deep pool, especially one in a riverbed. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
"The Kettle Wells are two lums, situated in Bonson's Wood, near Stanmore, which are not surpassed for Elysian beauty. The fall of the water into the first well is inconsiderable; but that continually empties itself into the lum below, over a smooth precipice of thirty feet."
- 4 A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.; A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine. Northern-England, Scotland, specifically
Etymology
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”).
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.
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