Lemizh / English dictionary

tmà.

to make unexpected, to lead to an expectation opposite to something-acc [given previous information]

tmÌ. but, even (often in a compound with the unexpected object; for ‘even’, this object has an inner partitive; see pragmatics page II, Pragmatic adverbs and expressives)

Etymology

< NLem tam‑a ‘(unpleasant) surprise’
< LMLem, MLem tamn‑yr ‘(surprise) attack’
< OLem tamnh‑ ‘cut’
< PLem *tamnh‑, nasal-infix present of
< PIE *temh₁‑

Cognates

Eng contempt (via Lat con‑temnō ‘despise’), Gk τέμνω ‘cut’