Lemizh / English dictionary
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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’