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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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tlàm, teaze (wool), handful of wool. Strachan and Stokes give the stem as *tlagm (read tlâg-s-m-) allied to Ger. flocke, flock of wool, Eng. flock.
tlàth, mild, smooth, Ir. tlaith (tláith, O'B.), tlath, E. Ir. tlaith, W. tlawd: *tlâti-, "long-suffering", from tel, bear, endure; Gr. τλητός, tláw, endure; Lat. tollo, raise, tuli, lâtus (for *tlâtus), borne; Eng., Sc. thole.
tlìgheachd, liquid, spume: t-lighe?
tlus, pity, tenderness, M. Ir. tlusach, wealthy, W. tlws, jewel (Stokes), E. Ir. tlus (S.n.R.); from root tḷ, tel of tlàth, q.v.
tnùth, envy, Ir., E. Ir. tnúth; from the root ten, stretch: "grasping"?
to-, do-, verbal prefix = to, ad, Ir., O. Ir. to-, do-. Stokes compares Gothic du- to, from þu (?). W. has du-, dy-, y, Cor. dhi, Br. do, da.
tòbairt, flux, diarrhœa spasms: to-fo-od-ber-t, root ber of beir.
toban, wreath of wool or flax on a distaff; from Sc. tappin.
tobar, a well, Ir. tobar, O. Ir. topur, fons: *to-od-bur, root bhur, bhru, to well, boil; Gr. φúρω, mix; Lat. ferveo, well, Eng. fervid; Skr. bhur, move quickly: further see root bhru in bruith, and bhrev in tiobar. Some have referred tobar to the root ber of inbhir, abar (obair).
tobha, a rope, from Sc. tow, rope, Eng. tow, pull, Norse tog, rope, Lat. duco.
tobhta, tota, turf, roofless walls, knoll; from Norse toft, topt, a clearing, a space enclosed by roofless walls, Eng. toft, tuft, and top.
tobhta, tota, a rower's bend; from Norse þopta.
toch, hough or thigh of an animal: *t-hoch, from the Sc. hough.
tochail, dig, Ir. tochuilim, tochlaim: *to-cladh; see cladh.
tochar, tochradh, dowry, ir. tochar, M. Ir. tocra, (acc.); cf. O. Ir. tochur, placing, from cuir, put. The idea is "something assigned to one". Hence Sc. tocher.
tòchd, tòch, an unpleasant smell, tòchar or tàchar, dense volume of smoke (Arg.); root stou, as in toth.
tòchd, a disease of the eye in cattle; cf. Sc. hock (H.S.D.).
†tochmharc, a wooing, so Ir., O. Ir. tochmarc: *to-com-arc; see for root iomchorc.
tocsaid, a hogshead; from the Eng.
todan, small tuft of wool (Lewis); N. toddi, a tod of wool. So Badenoch.
todhar, manure, a bleaching, seaweed for manure, Ir. tuar, a bleach-green, tuarachan, a bleacher:
todhlair, mastiff, better tobhlair:
