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Surname Etymology and Meaning of LAMB

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The name was probably taken from the sign of a lamb at an inn, the young of the sheep kind; Welsh, Llamer, to skip; Gaelic, Leum. The primitive Celtic or Gaelic Lam signified armor, as a dart, a blade, or sword; hence, to lam signified to disable, injure, maim, from which we have lame and limp.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).