ochd

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ochd     Ordinal : ochdamh

Etymology

From Old Irish ocht, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔxk/

Numeral

ochd

1. eight

Usage notes

• Without following noun takes the form a h-ochd.

Derived terms

• ochd-oisneach (“octangular”)
• ochd-shliosach (“octagon; octagonal”)
• ochd-shlisneach (“octagonal”)
• ochdad
• ochdamh
• ochdnar

 

References

• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)