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MacBain suggests a relation to Ancient Greekθυμός(thumós, “soul, desire, passion”) and Lithuaniandūmas(“smoke”) (NB: Perhaps erroneously, MacBain glosses the Lithuanian as dumas(“thought”)). Regardless, if true, it would be from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European*dʰewh₂-(“smoke”).
c.800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20b2
Is airi da·rogart-som noíb, ar frith⟨t⟩uidecht innaní as·rubartatar nád robae remdéicsiu ná láthar nDǽ dïa dúlib.
It is for this reason that he has called himself a saint, because of the opposition of those who have said that there is neither providence nor dispensation of God for his creatures.
c.800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 94b7
Amal as messe duda·forsat inna dúli, is mé dano bǽras mes fírían foraib.
As it is I who have created the elements, so too it is I who will pass righteous judgment on them.
c.800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 120c7