òigheachd
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish ógacht, ógdacht f (“chastity, virginity”), from óg, ógda (“pure, chaste, virginal”). By surface analysis, òigh (“maiden, virgin”) + -achd.
Noun
editòigheachd f
- maidenhead, hymen, virginity
- virgin modesty
References
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “òigheachd”, 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), “ógacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language