Further etymology uncertain, but probably a loan from a Celtic language. TLF says only that OFr. dain is from Lat. damma, dāma f. 'fallow deer'. WH implies that VLat. damma may have been borrowed from some unidentified Alpine language: from Ligurian or a Celtic language. RM says Fr. daim m. 'fallow deer' < Gallo-Lat. damma <- PCelt. *damo-, *damato- 'bull' < PIE. *dmh₂o- 'the tamed one' < *demh₂- v. 'to tame'.
Michiel de Vaan. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online.
[MDV]
Source
Matasović, Ranko. Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online: http://iedo.brillonline.nl.ludwig.lub.lu.se/dictionaries/content/proto-celtic/index.html
[RM]
Source
Trésors de la langue francaise informatisées. Centre national de ressources techniques et lexiques. http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/
[TLF]
Source
DEX online (2004-2015). Dicționare ale limbii române. https://dexonline.ro/
[DEX]
Source
Dictionnaire Francais - Occitan, Occitan - Francais, Occitan de Cassignac, Arve. 2015. Dictionnaire Francais - Occitan, Occitan - Francais, Occitan de communication. Toulouse: Mobileoccitan. Can be consulted online at: http://www.panoccitan.org/
[DOC]
Source
Nocentini, Alberto (2010). L'etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana. 1. ed. Milano: Le Monnier
[NEI]
Robert Farren, PIE culture words collection, 2017
[Farren (2017)]
Location
AH87, AH87, AH91, AH93, AH97, AH103
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