lum
A chimney; also, the top part of a chimneyA chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
Meaning
4 senses(Northern England, Scotland)A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
A chimney; also, the top part of a chimney.
(Northern England, Scotland, specifically)A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal)A grove or wood; also, a woody valley.
(Northern England, Scotland, dialectal)A deep pool, especially one in a riverbed.
Origin
Borrowed from Scots lum, Early Scots lumb; further etymology uncertain, but probably fromBorrowed 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”).
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