ucut

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• út (contraction)

Etymology

Probably identical with the prepositional pronoun ocut (“at you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɡud]

Determiner

ucut

1. (used with the definite article) yon, yonder; that...over there (distal)
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 9^a22 (Wikisource link)

     Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.

     Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two charac­ters in those conso­nants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.

Descendants

From the contracted form út:

• Irish: úd
• Scottish Gaelic: ud