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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for February 17, 1999
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galore [adj. guh-LOR]
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In English adjectives usually come before the nouns they modify, but
galore, which means "in great abundance," is an exception: "at the
fair, there were stilt-walkers and jugglers galore." This
construction is called "postpositive" placement of an adjective.
Another example of this is the placement of "martial" in the
expression "court martial."
Galore is from Irish Gaelic "go leor," a compound of the adverb
particle and leor (enough), so it could be translated as "enoughly."
Leor is from Old Irish loar, which was an alteration of roar (enough),
from ro-wero (very true).
That old root, wero, came from an even more ancient root that gave us
the truthful words veracious, verism, verity, verify, very, and
veracity. From the same root, but by a different path, came warlock
(male witch, sorcerer, wizard, or demon), from Old English waerloga
(oath breaker), from waer (pledge) and loga (liar).
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