luachmhor

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish lógmar (“precious, valuable”). By surface analysis, luach (“value, worth”) +‎ -mhor (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

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luachmhor

  1. precious, valuable, excellent

Synonyms

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References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “luachmhor”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lógmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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