oc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oc"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Occitan or French occitan, from Medieval Latin Occitānus.

Symbol

oc

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Occitan.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Occitan terms

English

Adverb

oc (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang) Initialism of of course.

Anagrams

• CO$, Co, c/o, CO, Co., ℅, co-, co, co., -co-

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish occaib.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Pronoun

oc (emphatic ocsyn)

1. third-person plural of ec

   at them

2. (idiomatic) their

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

oc

1. (Early Middle English, Worcestershire) alternative form of ok (“oak”)

Etymology 2

Adverb

oc

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of ok (“also”)

Conjunction

oc

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of ok (“also”)

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish oc, from Proto-Celtic *onkos (“near”). Compare Middle Irish ocus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡ/

Preposition

oc

1. at, beside, by (also used with a form of the substantive verb at·tá to express “have”)
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

     Bui cu oca, no ditned in cu Lagniu uile.

     He had a dog; the dog protected all Leinster.

2. (used with a verbal noun to make a progressive aspect):

Inflection

• Third-person singular masculine: oca, occo

Descendants

• Irish: ag
• Manx: ec
• Scottish Gaelic: aig

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Turkish öç.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːd͡ʒ/

Noun

oc f

1. revenge

Old English

Conjunction

oc

1. alternative form of ac