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EMER

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Irish, Irish Mythology

Pronounced: EE-mur   [key]

Possibly from Gaelic eimh "swift". In Irish legend she was the wife of Cuchulainn. She was said to possess the six gifts of womanhood: beauty, voice, speech, needlework, wisdom and chastity.
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