tomme

toume in (1671). from Franco-Provençal Dauphinois toma / tomo (around 1200). The etymon, presupposed in , toma ('type of cheese') is missing. Its pre-Latin origin is strongly suspected but not proposed (Gaulish, ancient Ligurian...). It is corroborated by the attestation in Sicilian tôma and Calabrian. An alternative by a Latin etymon tuma associated by meaning with tumere ('to swell') is proposed.