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“tuma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 392
Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “tuma”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 471; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 461
Uncertain. Possibly from the same ancient root of tumeō(“I swell”), which could derive from *tum-(“to swell”) + *-eh₂(“feminine ending”) (used for feminine result nouns from verbs). Compare Latintumor, tumidus.
Semantically related to Italiantoma, even though the suggested etymology from tomus does not fit the phonology of Sicilian. The other italic counterparts - Neapolitantuma and Piedmontesetùma both meaning cheese - suggest that the italianized form expunged the local/regional tonic vowel to a more "refined" one, like the Frenchtome.The italianization process in fact typically, at an onomastic level, shaped differently many Sicilian names (like SicilianCarusu or Gulisanu).