reamhar
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Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]reamhar m (genitive singular reamhair)
- Superseded spelling of ramhar (“thick part”).
Declension
[edit]Declension of reamhar
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Adjective
[edit]reamhar (genitive singular masculine reamhair, genitive singular feminine reimhre, plural reamhra)
- Superseded spelling of ramhar (“fat, thick”).
Declension
[edit]Declension of reamhar
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish remor (“fat, stout, thick”), from Proto-Celtic *remros (“great, fat, thick”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]reamhar (comparative reamhra)
Derived terms
[edit]- an t-Sròn Reamhar (“Stranraer”)
- bainne reamhar (“sheep's milk boiled and curdled; unskimmed milk”, literally “fat milk”)
- cnàimh-reamhar (“thick- or clumsy-boned”)
- criadh-reamhar f (“marl”)
- prìne reamhar (“blanket-pin”)
- reamhar am feòil (“fat-fleshed”)
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “reamhar”, 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), “remor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish superseded forms
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish adjectives
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives