óglachas

See also: òglachas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish óclachas m (“age of manhood”),[1] from óclach m (“young man”). By surface analysis, óglach +‎ -as.

Noun

óglachas m (genitive singular óglachais) (archaic)

  1. (state of) manhood
  2. manly vigour
  3. warriorhood; armed service
  4. service, vassalage
  5. (prosody) a style of verse (loose metre)

Declension

Declension of óglachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative óglachas
vocative a óglachais
genitive óglachais
dative óglachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-óglachas
genitive an óglachais
dative leis an óglachas
don óglachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of óglachas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
óglachas n-óglachas hóglachas t-óglachas

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óclachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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