ogha

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Pali

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Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit ओघ (ogha).

Noun

ogha m

  1. flood
  2. that which sweeps a man away from emancipation
  3. torrent

Declension

Declension table of "ogha" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)oghooghā
Accusative (second)oghaṃoghe
Instrumental (third)oghenaoghehi or oghebhi
Dative (fourth)oghassa or oghāya or oghatthaṃoghānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)oghasmā or oghamhā or oghāoghehi or oghebhi
Genitive (sixth)oghassaoghānaṃ
Locative (seventh)oghasmiṃ or oghamhi or ogheoghesu
Vocative (calling)oghaoghā

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

From Old Irish aue, from Proto-Celtic *pavio-s, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂u-.

Pronunciation

Noun

ogha m (plural oghachan or oghaichean)

  1. grandchild
  2. nephew

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Scots: oe

Mutation

Mutation of ogha
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ogha n-ogha h-ogha t-ogha

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ogha”, 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), “úa, óa, ó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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