pòg

See also: pog, POG, and póg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish póc, from Latin ōsculum pācis (“kiss of peace”), via Brythonic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔːk/

Noun

pòg f (genitive singular pòige, plural pògan)

1. kiss

Derived terms

• Là nam Pòg
• mìos nam pòg

Verb

pòg (past phòg, future pògaidh, verbal noun pògadh, past participle pògte)

1. kiss

   Tha cuimhn' agam air a' chiad àm nuair a phòg sinn...

   I remember when we kissed for the first time...

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
pòg	phòg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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