òc

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin hoc ‘that’ (compare Old French o, affirmative particle, French oui ‘yes’).^[1] The semantic shift is calqued on Gaulish: compare Old Irish tó ‘yes’, Welsh do ‘indeed’, from Proto-Indo-European *tod ‘that’ (compare English that).^[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA: [o], [ɔ]

Interjection

òc

1. yes

Derived terms

• lenga d'òc

References

1. ^ Trésor de la langue française informatisé, s.vv. "oui", "oïl", [1]
2. ^ Peter Schrijver, Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles, Maynooth, 1997, 15.