òc

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Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan oc, from Latin hoc (that) (compare Old French o, affirmative particle, French oui ‘yes’).[1] The semantic shift is calqued on Gaulish [Term?]: compare Old Irish (yes), Welsh do (indeed), from Proto-Indo-European *tod (that) (compare English that) (compare Catalan hoc).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [o], [ɔ]
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Interjection

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òc

  1. yes

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Trésor de la langue française informatisé, s.vv. "oui", "oïl", [1]
  2. ^ Peter Schrijver, Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles, Maynooth, 1997, 15.