-mhor

See also: mhòr and mhór

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vor/

Suffix

-mhor

1. Forming adjectives 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

Scottish Gaelic terms suffixed with -mhor