Definition/Bedeutung von lampern

• English - Noun: lampern ( plural lamperns ) The European river lamprey , Lampetra fluviatilis . 1382 , Wyclif's Bible , prologue to Job , page 671: […]if thou woldest an eel or a laumprun holde with streite hondis, how myche strengerli thou thristis, so myche the sunnere it shal sliden awey. 1589 , Thomas Coghan, Haven of Health (1636), page 165: LAmprayes or Lampurnes bee partly of the nature of Eeles[…]. 1799…
• English - Etymology: From Middle English laumproun , adopted from Old French lampreon , diminutive of lampreie ( “ lamprey ” ).
• English - Pronunciation: IPA (key) : /ˈlæmpərn/ Hyphenation: lam‧pern
• English - References: lampern in Oxford English Dictionary , volume VI , 1908 lampern in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913