tàmh

See also: támh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tám (“death, unconsciousness”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *tāmus, which could be related to *tādeti (“to melt”); see Proto-Brythonic *tọðɨd.[1] Or, from Proto-Indo-European *temH-, see also Sanskrit ताम्यति (tāmyati, “to choke, to die”), Old Church Slavonic томити (tomiti, “to languish”).[2] Cognate with Irish támh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ʰãːv/[3]

Verb

tàmh (past thàmh, future tàmhaidh, verbal noun tàmh, past participle tàmhte)

  1. rest, stay, dwell

Noun

tàmh m (genitive singular tàimh, no plural)

  1. verbal noun of tàmh
  2. rest, peace, leisure, stillness, repose

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of tàmh
radical lenition
tàmh thàmh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “ta-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tàmh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) “The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire”, in A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, volume II, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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