different between limu vs limn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian limu (“moss”).

Noun

limu (countable and uncountable, plural limus)

1. (Hawaii) Any of various kinds of edible algae, which form an important part of the traditional Hawaiian diet.
   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 158:

     The menu included chicken, roast pig, raw fish, seaweed, which Hawaiians called limu, roasted kukui nuts, and baked dog […]

Anagrams

• IUML, milu, muli

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?limu/, [?limu]
• Rhymes: -imu
• Syllabification: li?mu

Noun

limu

1. (colloquial) soda, soft drink

Declension

Synonyms

• (colloquial) limppari, limsa
• limonaati

Anagrams

• Lumi, lumi, muli

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut, doublet of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut (compare Malay lumut).

Noun

limu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)

Sikaiana

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *rimu.

Noun

limu

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta), seagrass

Tboli

Numeral

limu

1. five

English

Etymology

From Middle English limnen, limyne, lymm, lymn, lymne (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), a variant of luminen (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), short form of enluminen (“to shed light on, illuminate; to enlighten; to make bright or clear; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript); to depict, describe; to adorn or embellish with figures of speech or poetry; to make famous, glorious, or illustrious”), from Old French enluminer (“to brighten, light up; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript)”), from Latin ill?min? (“to brighten, light up; to adorn; to make conspicuous”), from il- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside’)) + l?min? (“to brighten, illuminate; to reveal”) (from l?men (“light; (poetic) brightness”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine; to see”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

Alternative forms

• limne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: l?m, IPA^(key): /l?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophones: lim, limb

Verb

limn (third-person singular simple present limns, present participle limning, simple past and past participle limned)

1. (transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate.

   Synonym: depict
2. (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

   Synonym: (to illuminate (a manuscript)) enlimn

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