tàmh

See also: támh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tám (“death, unconsciousness”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *tāmu-, which could be related to *tādeti (“to melt”); see Proto-Brythonic *tọðɨd.[1] Or, from Proto-Indo-European *tēmH-, see also Sanskrit ताम्यति (tāmyati, “to choke, to die”), Old Church Slavonic томити (tomiti, “to languish”).[2]

Verb

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

rest, stay, dwell

Noun

tàmh m (genitive singular tàimh, no plural)

verbal noun of tàmh
rest, peace, leisure, stillness, repose

Derived terms

rach mu thàmh

Mutation

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

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009), “ta-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 374
MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “tàmh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009), “ta-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 374

[2] MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “tàmh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh