todhar
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish túar (“cultivation”).
The dialectal meaning of “seaweed” comes from the widespread use of seaweed as fertiliser in the Hebrides.
Noun
[edit]todhar m (genitive singular todhair, no plural)
- fertilizer, manure, dung
- (North Uist, Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra) seaweed