támh

See also: tàmh

Irish

FWOTD – 19 June 2022

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 Scottish Gaelic tàmh, Breton tav (“quiet”).

támh f (genitive singular táimhe, nominative plural támha)

trance, swoon
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  Nuair a chualaidh an rí seo, ghlac sé támh ⁊ thuit sé marbh ar an talamh.
  When the king heard this, he went into a swoon and fell dead upon the ground.
(literary) plague

Declension of támh (second declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	támh	támha
vocative	a thámh	a thámha
genitive	táimhe	támh
dative	támh táimh (archaic, dialectal)	támha

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an támh	na támha
genitive	na táimhe	na dtámh
dative	leis an támh leis an táimh (archaic, dialectal) don támh don táimh (archaic, dialectal)	leis na támha

Contraction of taitheamh due to confusion with etymology 1. See tàmh (“rest”).

támh m (genitive singular táimh)

Declension of támh (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an támh
genitive	an táimh
dative	leis an támh don támh

Mutated forms of *támh*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
támh	thámh	dtámh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
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) “támh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page tàimh