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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish póc, from Latin ōsculum pācis (“kiss of peace”), via Brythonic.
Pronunciation
Noun
pòg f (genitive singular pòige, plural pògan)
- kiss
Derived terms
Verb
pòg (past phòg, future pògaidh, verbal noun pògadh, past participle pògte)
- kiss
Tha cuimhn' agam air a' chiad àm nuair a phòg sinn...- I remember when we kissed for the first time...
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| pòg |
phòg
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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
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “pòg”, 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), “póc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language