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)

1. will, testament
2. (biblical) testament
3. (literary) command, precept
4. swear word

Declension

Declension of tiomna

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tiomna tiomnaí Vocative a thiomna a thiomnaí Genitive tiomna tiomnaí Dative tiomna tiomnaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tiomna na tiomnaí Genitive an tiomna na dtiomnaí Dative leis an tiomna don tiomna leis na tiomnaí

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
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