-mhor

See also: mhór

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish -mar (compare Irish -mhar).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vor/

Suffix

-mhor

  1. Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the sense of “full of what is denoted by the noun", similar to -ful in English
    ceòl (“music”) → ceòlmhor (“musical”)
    feòil (“flesh”) → feòlmhor (“sensual, erotic; carnal, lustful; fleshy, fat; brutish, bestial”)
    iochd (“mercy, pity, compassion, grace”) → iochdmhor (“clement, compassionate, humane, merciful, kind”)
    iùl (“knowledge”) → iùlmhor (“wise, learned, sagacious, sensible”)
    sìol (“seed”) → sìolmhor (“prolific, fertile, generative, fruitful, abounding in seed”)

Derived terms
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