lame

• adj.不自由；硬くて痛い；不完全；説得力がない；貧しい、不自由な
• vi. 足が不自由になる。
• 足が不自由になる。

PIE*lemの「打つ」「叩く」が語源で、lam, lambasteと同じ。

ラテン語のlamina、層、シートから、語源はlaminate、オムレツと同じ。 金と銀の錦織を指すのに使われる。

lame

lame: [OE] Prehistoric Germanic had an adjective *lamon which meant ‘weak-limbed’, and seems to have originated in a base which meant something like ‘break by hitting’ (English lam ‘hit’ [16], as in ‘lam into someone’, and its derivative lambaste [17] probably come from the same source). In the modern Germanic languages it has diversified into two strands of meaning: Dutch, Swedish, and Danish lam denote mainly ‘paralysed’, a sense also present in German lahm, while English lame has taken the path of ‘limping, crippled’.
=> lam, lambaste

lame (n.)

"silk interwoven with metallic threads," 1922, from French lame, earlier "thin metal plate (especially in armor), gold wire; blade; wave (of the sea)," from Middle French lame, from Latin lamina, lamna "thin piece or flake of metal."

lame (adj.)

Old English lama "crippled, lame; paralytic, weak," from Proto-Germanic *lamon (cognates: Old Norse lami, Dutch and Old Frisian lam, German lahm "lame"), "weak-limbed," literally "broken," from PIE root *lem- "to break; broken," with derivatives meaning "crippled" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic lomiti "to break," Lithuanian luomas "lame"). In Middle English, "crippled in the feet," but also "crippled in the hands; disabled by disease; maimed." Sense of "socially awkward" is attested from 1942. Noun meaning "crippled persons collectively" is in late Old English.

lame (v.)

"to make lame," c. 1300, from lame (adj.). Related: Lamed; laming.

1. He mumbled some lame excuse about having gone to sleep.

彼は自分がなぜ寝ているのか説明しようと、ぼんやりと下手な言い訳をした。

2.Scott 's muscle atrophied，his leg became stunted，and he was left lame .

スコットの筋肉は萎縮し、足が完全に発育せず、びっこになった。

3.Look，I 'm not one of your lame ducks.

聞いて、私はあなたの部下のような廃物ではありません。

4.All our theories sound pretty lame .

私たちの理論はすべて成り立たないようです。

5.He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.

彼は足が立たない言い訳で自分の欠席を弁解しようとした。