тьма

• Glagolitic: ⱅⱐⰿⰰ (tĭma)

From Proto-Slavic *tьma, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *timāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *temH-.

тьма • (tĭma) f

1. darkness
   • 2 Коринт. 4:6-15 from Син. евх.:

     б҃ъ рекъі и҅с тъмъі свѣтоу въсиꙗ҅ти· ꙇ҅же въсиꙗ҅ въ ср҃цихъ вашихъ·

     For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts.

• свѣтъ (světŭ)

Borrowed from an ancestor of Mongolian түм (tüm).

тьма • (tĭma) f

1. ten thousand; a myriad
   • from Slavonic Josephus, kniga 4, 432б:

     идѧхоу бо по немъ кромѣ ѡроужникъ, четꙑри тмꙑ.

     idęxu bo po nemŭ kromě oružnikŭ, četyri tmy.

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2. a large number or multitude (of specified things)

• Nikolić, Svetozar (1989) Staroslovenski jezik: Pravopis, glasovi, oblici, Beograd

• тма (tma), тъма (tŭma)

From Proto-Slavic *tьma. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic тьма (tĭma) and Old Polish ćma.

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /tɪˈmɑ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /tʲɪˈma/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈtʲma/
• Hyphenation: ть‧ма

тьма (tĭma) f

1. darkness

• свѣтъ (světŭ, “light”)

• Old Ruthenian: тьма
  • Belarusian: цьма (cʹma)
  • Ukrainian: тьма (tʹma)
• Russian: тьма (tʹma)

Borrowed from a Mongolic language (compare Mongolian түм (tüm)). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic тьма (tĭma).

• (Early East Slavic) IPA^(key): /tʲɪˈma/
  • Hyphenation: ть‧ма
• (Late East Slavic) IPA^(key): /ˈtʲma/
  • Hyphenation: тьма

тьма (tĭma) f

1. myriad (10.000)
2. multitude (large amount)

• Russian: тьма (tʹma)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “тьма”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1081

• IPA^(key): [tʲma]

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Inherited from Old East Slavic тьма (tĭma), from Proto-Slavic *tьma, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *timāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *temH-.

тьма • (tʹma) f inan (genitive тьмы, nominative plural тьмы, genitive plural тем)

1. dark, darkness

   Synonyms: темнота́ f (temnotá), те́мень f (témenʹ)

   Antonym: свет m (svet)

• тёмный (tjómnyj)

Inherited from Old East Slavic тьма (tĭma), borrowed from a Mongolic language.

тьма • (tʹma) f inan (genitive тьмы, nominative plural тьмы, genitive plural тем)

1. (colloquial) thousands, a multitude, a host, lots of