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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish óclachas m (“the age of manhood; manly vigour, valour, quality or functions of a warrior; service, vassalage; name of a late kind of verse”), from óclach m (“young man; young warrior; warrior, soldier; attendant, servant, vassal”).
Noun
óglachas m (genitive singular óglachais) (archaic)
- (state of) manhood
- manly vigour
- warriorhood; armed service
- service, vassalage
- (prosody) a style of verse (loose metre)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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óglachas
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n-óglachas
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hóglachas
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t-óglachas
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “óglachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óclachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “óglaċas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 526