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)
- will, testament
- Synonym: uacht
- (biblical) testament
- (literary) command, precept
- swear word
Declension
Declension of tiomna (fourth declension)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of tiomna
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lenition
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eclipsis
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thiomna
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dtiomna
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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