òganach

See also: ógánach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish ógán + -ach, from Old Irish ócán, from óc (“young”).

Noun

òganach m (genitive singular òganaich, plural òganaich)

1. young man, youth
2. youngster, stripling, adolescent (male)
3. minor
4. bough, branch, twig

Synonyms

• ògan
• òigear (either sex)
• proitseach

Related terms

• òg
• ògail
• òganta

Mutation

Mutation of òganach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
òganach	n-òganach	h-òganach	t-òganach

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “òganach”, 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