ogham

See also: Ogham

English

Noun

ogham (plural oghams)

1. Alternative form of Ogham

Proper noun

ogham

1. Alternative form of Ogham

Anagrams

• Omagh, go HAM, go ham

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ogum, ogom, ogam.

Noun

ogham m (genitive singular oghaim)

1. Ogham (script, inscription)

Declension

Declension of ogham

First declension

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

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

Derived terms

• d'aon oghaim (“on purpose”)
• ogham chraobh f (“ogham lettering named from trees”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ogham”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ogum, (ogom)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ogham”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm