ocht

cardinal number

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• acht, àcht

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔxt/

ocht

1. (Alsatian) eight

Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ocht     Ordinal : ochtú     Personal : ochtar

From Old Irish ocht,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *oxtū, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɞxt̪ˠ/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɔxt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʌxt̪ˠ/

ocht (triggers eclipsis)

1. eight

• 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.

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ocht	n-ocht	hocht	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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

Old Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ocht     Ordinal : ochtmad     Male personal : ochtar

ocht

1. eight

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

ocht n

1. Alternative form of ucht (“breast”)

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

• 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

• owt

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

ocht

1. anything

• “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.