reamhar

Irish

reamhar m (genitive singular reamhair)

Declension of reamhar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

reamhar (genitive singular masculine reamhair, genitive singular feminine reimhre, plural reamhra)

Declension of reamhar

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	reamhar	reamhar	reamhra
Vocative	reamhair	reamhar	reamhra
Genitive	reamhair	reimhre	reamhra	reamhar
Dative	reamhar	reamhar; reamhair (archaic)	reamhra
Comparative	níos reimhre
Superlative	is reimhre

From Old Irish remor (“fat, stout, thick”), from Proto-Celtic *remros (“great, fat, thick”).

reamhar (comparative reamhra)

Terms derived from reamhar

bainne reamhar (“sheep's milk boiled and curdled; unskimmed milk”, literally “fat milk”)
cnàimh-reamhar (“thick-, or clumsy-boned”)
criadh-reamhar f (“marl”)

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

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