tiomna

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish timne (“command, precept, will, testament”), verbal noun of do·immna (“commits, entrusts, bequeaths, enjoins, commands”).

Noun

tiomna m (genitive singular tiomna, nominative plural tiomnaí)

1. will, testament

   Synonym: uacht

2. (biblical) testament
3. (literary) command, precept
4. swear word

Declension

Declension of tiomna (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tiomna tiomnaí vocative a thiomna a thiomnaí genitive tiomna tiomnaí dative tiomna tiomnaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tiomna na tiomnaí genitive an tiomna na dtiomnaí dative leis an tiomna don tiomna leis na tiomnaí

Derived terms

• An Sean-Tiomna
• An Tiomna Nua
• tiomnach (adjective)
• tiomnacht
• tiomnaigh (verb)
• tiomnóir (noun)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiomna

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tiomna	thiomna	dtiomna

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiomna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “timne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language