Tambre

Galician

The Tambre at Portomouro, Val do Dubra

The Tambre near Ponte Nafonso, Noia

A hydronym, from an older Tamar, attested in Medieval Latin as Tamare and Tamara, attested in Classical Latin as Tamaris, and in Ancient Greek as Ταμάρα (Tamára). From a substrate language, probably from Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hrós, from *temH- (“dark”); or alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tamo- (compare Welsh tawdd (“melts”))^[1] or Proto-Celtic *tā-,^[2] *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”),^[3] or from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥h₁-ró-, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).^[4] See also English Thames, Tamar and German Zembs.

Tambre m

a river in Galicia, Spain. It flows some 125 km to the Atlantic Ocean near Noia

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Tamar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
“Tambre” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.

^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) “Zembs”, in Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 612a
^ Kitson, Peter R. (1996) “British and European River Names”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 94, number 2, →DOI, pages 73–118
^ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2006) Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, pages 24-31
^ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.