póg

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See also: pog, POG, and pòg

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish póc,[1] from Latin (dare) pācem (to give peace) (originally a kiss as a sign of peace during a mass), via Brythonic.

Pronunciation

Noun

póg f (genitive singular póige, nominative plural póga)

  1. kiss

Declension

Verb

póg (present analytic pógann, future analytic pógfaidh, verbal noun pógadh, past participle pógtha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) kiss

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Yola: poage, poag, paug, paugh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
póg phóg bpóg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “póc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

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