-mhor
Scottish Gaelic
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editFrom Old Irish -mar (compare Irish -mhar).
Pronunciation
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- 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”)