òigheachd

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ógacht, ógdacht f (“chastity, virginity”), from óg, ógda (“pure, chaste, virginal”). By surface analysis, òigh (“maiden, virgin”) +‎ -achd.

Noun

òigheachd f

1. maidenhead, hymen, virginity
2. virgin modesty

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “òigheachd”, 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), “ógacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language