leem

From Old Dutch leimo, from Proto-West Germanic *laimō, from Proto-Germanic *laimô, variant of *laimaz (“glue”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Compare dialectal English lair (“a bog, a mire”), Old Norse leira (“muddy beach”).

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• Rhymes: -eːm

leem n or m (uncountable)

1. loam
2. adobe

• lemen

• meel

From Proto-Finnic *leemi (“broth, soup”), from Proto-Uralic *läme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːm/

• Rhymes: -eːm
• Hyphenation: leem

leem (genitive leeme, partitive leent)

1. (cooking, uncountable) a broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.)

   Synonym: puljong

   selge leemega supp

   soup with clear broth

2. a decoction (an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down)

   aeg-ajalt tuleks praadi pannil oleva leemega kasta

   from time to time, the steak should be basted with the decoction in the pan

3. (countable) a soup (liquid food made of various substances boiled with water in the Estonian peasantry, which later came to be called soup)

   Synonym: supp

   tanguleem ― groat soup

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• leem in Sõnaveeb
• M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “leem”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
• leem in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN

• meel

leem

1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) inflection of lear:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative
2. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of ler

leem

1. Alternative form of leme

• Hyphenation: le‧em

leem

1. third-person plural present indicative of ler