smùr

See also: smur and smúr

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish smúr (“dust, dross, rust”).

Noun

smùr m (genitive singular smùire, plural smùran)

1. spot, particle, blemish
2. dross, dust

Derived terms

• smùr guail (“coal dross”)

Related terms

• smùrach (“dross, crumbs”)

Mutation

Mutation of smùr

radical	lenition
smùr	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “smúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language