óclachas

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • ócláchus

Etymology

From óclach + -as.

Noun

óclachas m (genitive óclachsa)

  1. The condition of being an óclach: hence,
    1. the age of manhood, the prime of life
      • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 44c26
        .i. sechis ho oclachas ón cenid ed as chetnae náis in homine
        that is, from adolescence, although it is not that that is the first age in homine.
    2. manly vigour; valour; quality of a warrior
    3. service, vassalage

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative óclachas
Vocative óclachas
Accusative óclachasN
Genitive óclachsoH, óclachsaH
Dative óclachasL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: óclachas

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
óclachas unchanged n-óclachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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