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TAGHAIRM
Definition of TAGHAIRM
noun
An ancient divination method of the Highland Scots involving animal sacrifice. A method of divination involving wrapping a person in the hide of a freshly-killed ox which was then placed beside a waterfall or other desolate place, to enable the person to foresee the outcome of an impending battle; the oracle of the hide. A method of divination in which cats were roasted alive to call up the spirit of the demon cat who would grant the wishes of the torturers.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic taghairm, from Old Irish togairm, from Proto-Celtic *to-garrman, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵh₂r̥-smn̥, from *ǵeh₂r- (“to call, to shout”); compare Irish toghairm (“an invocation, a summons”), from gairm, gair (“to call; to invoke”), ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European roots. The Encyclopædia Britannica (3rd ed., 1797) suggests a derivation from Scottish Gaelic ta (“a ghost, a spirit”) + gairm (“to call, to cry”), while the editor of an 1871 edition of Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake suggested tarbh (“a bull”) or targair (“to foretell”). These etymologies are no longer to be taken seriously.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAGHAIRM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAGHAIRM starts with T and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AAGHIMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 50
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