òglachas

See also: óglachas

Scottish Gaelic

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

òglachas m (genitive singular òglachais, no plural)

1. farm service
2. servitude, slavery, vassalage
3. the fourth stage of human life, from 34 to 54 years of age
4. (prosody) a kind of Gaelic verse

References

• 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