támh

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See also: tàmh

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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 Scottish Gaelic tàmh, Breton tav (quiet).

Noun

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támh f (genitive singular táimhe, nominative plural támha)

  1. trance, swoon
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Nuair a chualaidh an rí seo, ghlac sé támh ⁊ thuit sé marbh ar an talamh.
      When the king heard this, he went into a swoon and fell dead upon the ground.
  2. (literary) plague
Declension
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Etymology 2

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Contraction of taitheamh due to confusion with etymology 1. See tàmh (rest).

Noun

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támh m (genitive singular táimh)

  1. (archaic, literary) rest, sleep
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
támh thámh dtámh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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) “támh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh

Further reading

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