Mòr and mhòr

Mòr agus mhòr

Why the difference of  beag  and  bheag  and  mòr  and  mhòr?  

This is because Gaelic nouns are divided into feminine and masculine nouns. It’s important to distinguish these from female and male nouns! It does not refer to the gender of an animal or a person. 

The adjectives  beag  meaning small and  mòr  meaning big lenite when used with feminine nouns to become  bheag  and  mhòr . Lenition means softening and it often means a change in the spelling of a word, by adding an  ‘h’  after the first consonant.