mòr

See also: mor, MOR, mór, Mór, môr, Mòr, mór-, and Appendix:Variations of "mor"

Portuguese

Adjective

mòr (invariable, comparable)

Obsolete spelling of mor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mór, from Proto-Celtic *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁ros.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [moːɾ]

Adjective

mòr (comparative motha or mò)

big, large, great
great, important

Derived terms

Terms derived from mòr

An Cuan Mòr (“the Atlantic Ocean”)
an-mhòr (“immense”)
baile mòr (“city”)
cailleach-oidhche-mhòr (“eagle owl”)
caolan mòr (“large intestine”)
cha mhò (“neither, nor”)
cnàimh-mòr-na-lurgainn (“tibia”)
cnatan mòr (“influenza”)
Cogadh Mòr (“World War I”)
còta-mòr (“overcoat”)
cuan mòr (“ocean”)

Dara Cogadh Mòr (“World War II”)
doras mòr (“front door”)
fèileadh mòr (“great kilt”)
gobhlan mòr (“swift”)
mòr-
mòrachd (“majesty”)
mòrail (“majestic; pompous”)
mòran (“a lot”)
mòr às (“conceited”)
mòr às fhèin (“conceited”)

mòr-sgèile (“large-scale”)
mòr-sluagh (“multitude”)
neòinean mòr (“oxeye daisy”)
òrdag mhòr (“big toe”)
pìob-mhòr (“Scottish bagpipes”)
seabhag-mhòr-na-seilge (“gyrfalcon”)
seillean mòr (“bumblebee”)
solas mòr
suidheachan mòr (“armhair, easy chair”)
taigh-mòr (“mansion”)

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
“mór, már” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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