òganach

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See also: ógánach

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish ógán + -ach, from Old Irish ócán, from óc (young).

Noun

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òganach m (genitive singular òganaich, plural òganaich)

  1. young man, youth
  2. youngster, stripling, adolescent (male)
  3. minor
  4. bough, branch, twig

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
òganach n-òganach h-òganach t-òganach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “òganach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ócán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language