See also: ógán and ògàn

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish ógán, from Old Irish ócán, from óc (young).

Noun

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ògan m (genitive singular ògain, plural òganan)

  1. young branch
  2. twig, tendril
  3. seedling, sapling, shoot
  4. germ
  5. youngster (male)

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ògan n-ògan h-ògan t-ògan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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