Where does “claymore” come from?

claymore (French) comes from English Claymore, from Scottish Gaelic claidheamh-mòr.

claymore (French): claymore

Definitions

  1. claymore

Ancestry of “claymore”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishClaymoreAn American-made anti-personnel mine designed to lay down a wide arc of steel ball bearings in order to inflict casualties
2Scottish Gaelicclaidheamh-mòr—
Every word from Scottish Gaelic claidheamh-mòr →Every word from English Claymore →