luachmhor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish lógmar (“precious, valuable”); synchronically, luach (“value, worth”) +‎ -mhor (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

luachmhor

  1. precious, valuable, excellent

Synonyms

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “lógmar” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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