òglachas
See also: óglachas
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish óclachas m (“the age of manhood; manly vigour, valour, quality or functions of a warrior; service, vassalage; name of a late kind of verse”), from óclach m (“young man; young warrior; warrior, soldier; attendant, servant, vassal”).
Noun[edit]
òglachas m (genitive singular òglachais, no plural)
- farm service
- servitude, slavery, vassalage
- the fourth stage of human life, from 34 to 54 years of age
- (prosody) a kind of Gaelic verse
References[edit]
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “òglachas”, 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), “óclachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language