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A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Proper noun
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).
Origin
* As a Scottish and English surname, variant of Moore. * As a French surname, from Old French more (“Moor”), respelled from Latin Maurus. Compare Mauro. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mór (“big”). * As an Indian (Maharashtra) surname, from Marathi मोर (mor, “peacock”), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).
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Proper noun Entry 2
- The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
Origin
From French mooré, from Moore moore (“Moore language”), from moaaga (“Mossi person”) + -re (suffix for names of languages).