Tamuxe

Galician

Etymology

A hydronym, attested in the 15th century as Tamuja. A suffixed form from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark”); or alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tā-,[1] *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”).[2] See also Thames.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /taˈmuʃe̝/

Proper noun

Tamuxe m

  1. a river flowing 15 km to the Minho river in O Rosal, Galicia

References
  1. Kitson, Peter R. (1996) “British and European River Names”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 94, number 2, →DOI, pages 73–118
  2. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2006) Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 33
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