Tambre

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Galician

The Tambre at Portomouro, Val do Dubra
The Tambre near Ponte Nafonso, Noia

Etymology

A hydronym, from an older Tamar, attested in Medieval Latin as Tamare and Tamara, attested in Classical Latin as Tamaris, and in Ancient Greek as Ταμάρα (Tamára). From a substrate language, probably from Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hrós, from *temH- (“dark”); or alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tamo- (compare Welsh tawdd (“melts”))[1] or Proto-Celtic *tā-,[2] *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”),[3] or from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥h₁-ró-, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).[4] See also English Thames, Tamar and German Zembs.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tambre m

  1. A river in Galicia, Spain. It flows some 125 km to the Atlantic Ocean near Noia

See also

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Tamar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “Tambre” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  1. ^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) “Zembs”, in Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 612a
  2. ^ Kitson, Peter R. (1996) “British and European River Names”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 94, number 2, →DOI, pages 73–118
  3. ^ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2006) Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, pages 24-31
  4. ^ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.
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