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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish lógmar (“precious, valuable”). By surface analysis, luach (“value, worth”) + -mhor (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
luachmhor
- precious, valuable, excellent
Synonyms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “luachmhor”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lógmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language