Tambre

Galician

The Tambre at Portomouro, Val do Dubra

Etymology

A hydronym, attested in Medieval Latin as Tamare and Tamara, attested in Classical Latin as Tamaris, and in Ancient Greek as Ταμάρα (Tamára). From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hrós, from *temH- (“dark”); or alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tā-[1], *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”),[2] or from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥h₁-ró-, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).[3] See also Thames.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtambɾe̝/

Proper noun

Tambre m

  1. A river in Galicia, Spain. It flows some 125 km to the Atlantic Ocean near Noia.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kitson, Peter R. (1996), “British and European River Names”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 94, issue 2, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1996.tb01178.x, pages 73–118
  2. ↑ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2006) Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, pages 24-31
  3. ↑ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.
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