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. 44^c26

        .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
  • Irish: óglachas
  • Scottish Gaelic: òglachas

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
óclachas (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-óclachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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