reamhar
Irish
Declension
Declension of reamhar
First declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Adjective
reamhar (genitive singular masculine reamhair, genitive singular feminine reimhre, plural reamhra)
- Obsolete spelling of ramhar (“fat, thick”)
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish remor (“fat, stout, thick”), from Proto-Celtic *remros (“great, fat, thick”).
Adjective
reamhar (comparative reamhra)
Derived terms
- bainne reamhar (“sheep's milk boiled and curdled; unskimmed milk”, literally “fat milk”)
- cnàimh-reamhar (“thick-, or clumsy-boned”)
- criadh-reamhar f (“marl”)
- fàs reamhar (“get or become fat”)
- prìne reamhar (“blanket-pin”)
- reamhar am feòil (“fat-fleshed”)
- reamhar mar agh (“fat as a heifer”)
References
- 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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