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àrd-ollamh

àrd-ollamh

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

àrd-ollamh m (genitive singular àrd-ollaimh, plural àrd-ollamhan)

  1. professor
    • Quotations
  • 2010, Gillian Munro & Iain Mac an Tàilleir , Coimhearsnachd na Gàidhlig an-diugh/ Gaelic Communities Today, Dunedin Academic Press, p.xi:
...òraid bhon Àrd-ollamh James Hunter.

Usage notes

  • Used in the British sense of the word professor, that is, a head of a department.