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Scottish Gaelic place-name element
mòr
mòr means “big, large, great”
Place names with mòr
- A' Cheannmhor · Kenmore · Perth and Kinross“big head”
- Lios Mòr · Lismore · Argyll and Bute“large enclosure”
Other Scottish Gaelic elements
baile · village, townbàn · white, pale, faircàrn · cairnceann · head, enddùn · fort, fortresseaglais · churchgleann · glen, valleyinbhir · mouth of a river, estuarylios · garden; enclosure; fortified placeloch · lake, lochmuileann · millport · port, harbourruadh · redsròn · nose; promontory, pointtobar · well, spring
Sources
- Wiktionary: mòr (Scottish Gaelic) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- blas course vocabulary (gd-mr-2)
Meaning, etymology and pronunciation text is adapted from Wiktionary. The adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Coordinates and identifiers from Wikidata (CC0). Areas and map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
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