oc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oc"

Manx

Pronoun

oc (emphatic form ocsyn)

1. third-person plural of ec

   at them

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Old Irish

Etymology

• From Proto-Celtic *onkus (“near”). Compare Old Irish ocus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡ/

Preposition

oc

1. at
2. beside
3. by
4. (used with a verbal noun to make a progressive aspect):
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16^d8

     Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.

     I am boasting about you to the Macedonians.

Descendants

• Irish: ag
• Manx: ec
• Scottish Gaelic: aig

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “oc”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “oc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin hoc. Compare Old French oïl and o.

Adverb

oc

1. yes

Antonyms

• no

Descendants

• Occitan: òc
• Old Catalan: hoc, oc, hoch

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Veps

Etymology

From .

Noun

oc

1. forehead
2. top, peak, summit

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “вершина, лоб, чело”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika