òc

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "oc"

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan oc, from Latin hoc (“that”) (compare Old French o, affirmative particle, French oui ‘yes’).[1] The semantic shift is calqued on Gaulish [Term?]: compare Old Irish tó (“yes”), Welsh do (“indeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tod (“that”) (compare English that).[2]

Pronunciation

Interjection

òc

  1. yes

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Trésor de la langue française informatisé, s.vv. "oui", "oïl", [1]
  2. ^ Peter Schrijver, Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles, Maynooth, 1997, 15.
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