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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish lógmar (“precious, valuable”), from lóg (“value”) + -mar. By surface analysis, luach + -mhar.
Pronunciation
Adjective
luachmhar (genitive singular masculine luachmhair, genitive singular feminine luachmhaire, plural luachmhara, comparative luachmhaire)
- valuable, costly, precious
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “luachmhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lógmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language