famhair
Scottish Gaelic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish fomóir (“Fomorian, giant”) (compare Manx foawr).
Noun
editfamhair m (genitive singular famhair, plural famhairean)
Derived terms
edit- ban-fhamhair (“giantess”)
References
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “famhair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fomóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language