ocht

See also: òcht

Alemannic German

cardinal number

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Alternative forms

• acht, àcht

Etymology

From Old High German ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu. Cognate with German acht, Dutch acht, English eight, Swedish åtta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔxt/

Numeral

ocht

1. (Alsatian) eight

Irish

Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ocht     Ordinal : ochtú     Personal : ochtar

Etymology

From Old Irish ocht, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɞxt̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɔxt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʌxt̪ˠ/

Numeral

ocht (triggers eclipsis)

1. eight

Usage notes

• May be used with nouns in both the singular and plural; the singular is more common in general, but the plural must be used with units of measurement and the like. Triggers eclipsis:

• ocht gcat ― eight cats
• ocht dtroithe ― eight feet
• ocht n-éin ― eight birds

• When used with the definite article, the definite article is always in the plural. When used with adjectives, the adjective is also in the plural and is always lenited after nouns in the singular; after nouns in the plural, the adjective only lenites after slender consonants:

• ocht gcapall bhána ― eight white horses
• na hocht n-eaglais mhóra ― the eight big churches

But:

• ocht gcapaill bhána ― eight white horses
• na hocht n-eaglaisí móra ― the eight big churches

• When referring to human beings, the personal form ochtar is used.

Derived terms

• ochtar (used with personal nouns)
• ochtú (“eighth”) (ordinal)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ocht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ocht	n-ocht	hocht	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *oxtū, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ocht     Ordinal : ochtmad     Male personal : ochtar

ocht

1. eight

Descendants

• Irish: ocht
• Manx: hoght
• Scottish Gaelic: ochd

Etymology 2

Noun

ocht n

1. Alternative form of ucht (“breast”)

Mutation

Mutation of ocht

radical	lenition	nasalization
ocht (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ocht

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ocht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ocht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Alternative forms

• owt

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”).

Pronoun

ocht

1. anything

References

• “ocht, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “ocht, n., pron., adj., adv.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.