tàmh
See also: támh
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
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.
Verb edit
tàmh (past thàmh, future tàmhaidh, verbal noun tàmh, past participle tàmhte)
Noun edit
tàmh m (genitive singular tàimh, no plural)
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| tàmh | thàmh |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “ta-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tàmh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh