óglachas

See also: òglachas

Irish

Etymology

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

óglachas m (genitive singular óglachais) (archaic)

1. (state of) manhood
2. manly vigour
3. warriorhood; armed service
4. service, vassalage
5. (prosody) a style of verse (loose metre)

Declension

Declension of óglachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative óglachas Vocative a óglachais Genitive óglachais Dative óglachas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-óglachas Genitive an óglachais Dative leis an óglachas don óglachas

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “óglachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óclachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “óglaċas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 526