tiomna
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish timne (“command, precept, will, testament”), verbal noun of do·immna (“commits, entrusts, bequeaths, enjoins, commands”).
Noun
tiomna m (genitive singular tiomna, nominative plural tiomnaí)
Declension
Declension of tiomna
Synonyms
- (last will and testament): uacht
Derived terms
- An Sean-Tiomna (“the Old Testament”)
- An Tiomna Nua (“the New Testament”)
- tiomnach (“testate; testamentary”, adjective)
- tiomnacht (“bequest; testacy”)
- tiomnaigh (“bequeath; enjoin, command; commend; dedicate; delegate, entrust”, verb)
- tiomnóir (“testator”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tiomna | thiomna | dtiomna |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiomna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “timne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language