tàmh

See also: támh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

tàmh (past thàmh, future tàmhaidh, verbal noun tàmh, past participle tàmhte)

  1. rest, stay, dwell

Noun

tàmh m (genitive singular tàimh, no plural)

  1. verbal noun of tàmh
  2. rest, peace, leisure, stillness, repose

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tàmhthàmh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  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) “tàmh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh
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