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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish ógán, from Old Irish ócán, from óc (“young”).
Noun
ògan m (genitive singular ògain, plural òganan)
- young branch
- twig, tendril
- seedling, sapling, shoot
- germ
- youngster (male)
Synonyms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| ògan |
n-ògan |
h-ògan |
t-ògan
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “ògan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ócán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language