Scottish Gaelic

Suffix

-mhor

1. Forming nouns from nouns and adjectives with the sense of “full of what is denoted by the noun", similar to -ful in English

   ceòl ‎(“music”) → ceòlmhor ‎(“musical”)

   feòil ‎(“flesh”) → feòlmhor ‎(“sensual, erotic; carnal, lustful; fleshy, fat; brutish, bestial”)

   iochd ‎(“mercy, pity, compassion, grace”) → iochdmhor ‎(“clement, compassionate, humane, merciful, kind”)

   iùl ‎(“knowledge”) → iùlmhor ‎(“wise, learned, sagacious, sensible”)

   sìol ‎(“seed”) → sìolmhor ‎(“prolific, fertile, generative, fruitful, abounding in seed”)

Derived terms