ogham

See also: Ogham

English

Noun

ogham (plural oghams)

1. Alternative form of Ogham

Proper noun

ogham

1. Alternative form of Ogham

Anagrams

• Omagh, go HAM, go ham

French

Noun

ogham m (uncountable)

1. Ogham

Further reading

• “ogham”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ogum, ogom, ogam.

Noun

ogham m (genitive singular oghaim)

1. Ogham (script, inscription)

Declension

Declension of ogham (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ogham vocative a oghaim genitive oghaim dative ogham forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-ogham genitive an oghaim dative leis an ogham don ogham

Derived terms

• d'aon oghaim (“on purpose”)
• ogham chraobh f (“ogham lettering named from trees”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of ogham

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ogham	n-ogham	hogham	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) “ogham”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ogum, (ogom)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ogham”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm