lám (noun): pious, devoted. Also occurs as a personal name, Lámbut.
arcá ta lámb-a tarÃvisam párnisang
indeed NEG pious-INDEF feel hardship.ELL
“indeed, the pious do not suffer hardship” (TarÅ¡emâ, Kâlakåš 15:6)
lám is chiefly used to refer to men and women who appear to express an above-average devotion to the ideals of Olerism. These include performing the prescribed rituals such as prayers and fasting and regularly participating in readings of the TarÅ¡emâ (Olerism’s sacred book) in one’s local Round Temple. They might also refer to other religious activities such as proselytizing or copying manuscripts of the TarÅ¡emâ (although this has become less of an issue with the recent arrival of the printing press in Eoleon’s “present”, in the locally reckoned 1490s). This concept of piety has only gained prominence since the adoption of Olerism by the Eolians – it does not occur in the preceding polytheist religion, which was much more directly instrumentalist. The world is concomitantly of relatively recent origin, and may have been even coined by Callútut (1091-1135), the first translator of the entirety of the TarÅ¡emâ into High Eolic.