tomhann.

Brit.

/ˈtɒmən/,

/ˈtəʊmən/, U.S.

/ˈtɑmən/, Scottish English

/ˈtɔmən/

Forms: 1800s tohman (rare), 1800s toman, 1800s– tomhan.

Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic toman.

Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic toman hillock < tom hill (Early Irish tomm , probably cognate with Welsh tom dung, dunghill, further origin uncertain, perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as thumb n.) + -an, suffix forming diminutives.The English form tomhan apparently shows (hypercorrect) influence from other Scottish Gaelic words with the digraph mh (pronounced /v/).

Originally and chiefly Scottish.

A small hill, hillock, or knoll; (chiefly) a mound of a type formed by glacial moraines, typically found at the heads of valleys in the Scottish Highlands; esp. such a feature identified in folklore as a dwelling place of fairies; a fairy mound.

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1811 A. Grant Ess. Superstit. Highlanders I. vii. 282 The children's nursery tales are full of wonders performed by the secret dwellers of these tomhans, or fairy hillocks.

1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 852 The Queen of the Fairies among the tohmans of her ancient woods.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) v. 99 The western slopes of the valley are mottled by grassy tomhans—the moraines of some ancient glacier.

1876 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys iii. 121 Those huge boulders and gravel-knolls or tomans continued a mystery till the glacial theory.

1924 Border Mag. May 75/1 These mounds were then regarded as the homes of the fairies near which it was very unchancy to linger in the gloaming... Tomhans was the name applied to them.

2013 T. Bane Encycl. Fairies in World Folklore & Mythol. 135/1 Gaelic fay raid low country settlements and take mortal women and children back to their shians or tomhans, a mass of hillocks or rocks.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tomhan
释义	tomhann. Brit. /ˈtɒmən/, /ˈtəʊmən/, U.S. /ˈtɑmən/, Scottish English /ˈtɔmən/ Forms: 1800s tohman (rare), 1800s toman, 1800s– tomhan. Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic toman. Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic toman hillock < tom hill (Early Irish tomm , probably cognate with Welsh tom dung, dunghill, further origin uncertain, perhaps ultimately < the same Indo-European base as thumb n.) + -an, suffix forming diminutives.The English form tomhan apparently shows (hypercorrect) influence from other Scottish Gaelic words with the digraph mh (pronounced /v/). Originally and chiefly Scottish. A small hill, hillock, or knoll; (chiefly) a mound of a type formed by glacial moraines, typically found at the heads of valleys in the Scottish Highlands; esp. such a feature identified in folklore as a dwelling place of fairies; a fairy mound. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock barrowc885 burrowc885 berryc1000 knapc1000 knollc1000 ball1166 howa1340 toft1362 hillocka1382 tertre1480 knowec1505 hilleta1552 hummock1555 mountainettea1586 tump1589 butt1600 mountlet1610 mounture1614 colline1641 tuft1651 knock?17.. tummock1789 mound1791 tomhan1811 koppie1848 tuffet1877 1811 A. Grant Ess. Superstit. Highlanders I. vii. 282 The children's nursery tales are full of wonders performed by the secret dwellers of these tomhans, or fairy hillocks. 1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 852 The Queen of the Fairies among the tohmans of her ancient woods. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) v. 99 The western slopes of the valley are mottled by grassy tomhans—the moraines of some ancient glacier. 1876 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys iii. 121 Those huge boulders and gravel-knolls or tomans continued a mystery till the glacial theory. 1924 Border Mag. May 75/1 These mounds were then regarded as the homes of the fairies near which it was very unchancy to linger in the gloaming... Tomhans was the name applied to them. 2013 T. Bane Encycl. Fairies in World Folklore & Mythol. 135/1 Gaelic fay raid low country settlements and take mortal women and children back to their shians or tomhans, a mass of hillocks or rocks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811
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