tàmh

See also: támh

Scottish Gaelic

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.

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

tàmh m (genitive singular tàimh, no plural)

Mutation of *tàmh*
radical	lenition
tàmh	thàmh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “ta-yo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tàmh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap