tuaim

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠuəmʲ/[1]

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish túaim,[2] from Proto-Celtic *tou(x)sman (“bend, arch, curve”) (whence also Welsh ystum (“gesture”)).

Noun

tuaim f (genitive singular tuama, nominative plural tuamanna)

  1. (archaeology) tumulus
Declension
Declension of tuaim (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuaim tuamanna
vocative a thuaim a thuamanna
genitive tuama tuamanna
dative tuaim tuamanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuaim na tuamanna
genitive na tuama na dtuamanna
dative leis an tuaim
don tuaim 		leis na tuamanna
Derived terms
  • Tuaim (“Tuam”)
  • tuamúil

Further reading

Etymology 2

Alteration of fuaim (“sound, noise”)

Noun

tuaim f (genitive singular tuaime, nominative plural tuaimeanna)

  1. Ulster form of fuaim (“sound, noise”)
Declension
Declension of tuaim (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuaim tuaimeanna
vocative a thuaim a thuaimeanna
genitive tuaime tuaimeanna
dative tuaim tuaimeanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuaim na tuaimeanna
genitive na tuaime na dtuaimeanna
dative leis an tuaim
don tuaim 		leis na tuaimeanna

Further reading

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • tuaghaim (obsolete)

Verb

tuaim

  1. first-person singular present indicative/imperative of tuaigh (“to chop”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuaim
radical lenition eclipsis
tuaim thuaim dtuaim

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 383, page 128
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túaim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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