Tamuxe

Tamuxe

Galician

Etymology

A hydronym, attested in the 15th century as Tamuja. A suffixed form from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”); or alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tā-[1], *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”).[2] See also Thames.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈmuʃe̝/

Proper noun

Tamuxe m

1. A river flowing 15 km to the Minho river in O Rosal, Galicia.

References

1. Kitson, Peter R. (1996), “British and European River Names”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 94, issue 2, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1996.tb01178.x, pages 73–118
2. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2006) Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, pages 33