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Irish
Noun
reamhar m (genitive singular reamhair)
- Superseded spelling of ramhar (“thick part”).
Declension
Adjective
reamhar (genitive singular masculine reamhair, genitive singular feminine reimhre, plural reamhra)
- Superseded spelling of ramhar (“fat, thick”).
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish remor (“fat, stout, thick”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *remros (“great, fat, thick”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
reamhar (comparative reamhra or reaimhre or riumha)
- fat, plump, fleshy
- fat, greasy, oily
- big, great
- thick, gross, of great circumference
- coarse
Derived terms
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “remor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
- ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “reamhar”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN