pòg

See also: pog, POG, and póg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish póc, from Latin ōsculum pācis (“kiss of peace”), via Brythonic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰɔːk/

Noun

pòg f (genitive singular pòige, plural pògan)

  1. kiss

Derived terms

Verb

pòg (past phòg, future pògaidh, verbal noun pògadh, past participle pògte)

  1. kiss
    Tha cuimhn' agam air a' chiad àm nuair a phòg sinn...
    I remember when we kissed for the first time...

Mutation

Mutation of pòg
radical lenition
pòg phòg

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “pòg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 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
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