tolch

Welsh

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “GPC doesn't give an etymology. This looks like it's from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to thicken, be solid”), perhaps from an intermediate with form similar to *ténkl̥-. If so, then cognate with Persian (talx, “bitter”), Sanskrit तञ्च् (tañc, “to contract, coagulate”), तक्र (takra, “buttermilk mixed with (a third part of) water”), Lithuanian tánkus (“thick, dense”), and Icelandic þél (“buttermilk”).”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔlχ/
Rhymes: -ɔlχ

Noun

tolch m (plural tolchau or tolchion)

clot, blood clot, thrombus, coagulation

Derived terms

hufen tolch (“clotted cream”)
tolchi (“to clot”)
tolchiad (“coagulation, thrombosis”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tolch	dolch	nholch	tholch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tolch”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies