An Irish-English dictionary - National Library of Scotland

ou1u\ OTHA 0UÍ1R OTIIR
Oj-ioog, ospog, see opnoj.
0]-]\Án, osixm, s. m. peace.
Oi^^vw, ossadh, s. m. a truce, M'Par. 44.
Oj-i-a-oIa, ossadhla, s. m. a league, compact.
Oi'i-Aji, ossar, s. m. a back biu'den.
On-ArAit.e, ossaraidheA
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0]~^~A]\o^\\, ossaroir, J
Oiyo^, ossog, s. f. a blast, breeze, squall.
Oj-i-ogAC, ossopach, a. blustering, squally
Oi-j-jiATOe, ossraidhe, s. m. cow dung.
0]XA, osfa, see cpDA.
0|-cóin, ostoir, s. m. an hostler, a host
OcAiL, othail, s. hurry, confusion, Sc.
OcÁini, otaim, adv. and v. since that I am, be-
.
cause I am.
OÉAi]-^, othaisg, s. f. a sheep of a year old.
OcAii, otkan, s. m. iroth, scum.
OcA]i, otiiar, s. m. labour; •ouine ocai^i, a labourer;
wages, reward; a. sick, weak,
wounded, mutilated.
OcAiiCAi, otharchai, s. an infirmary.
OcAiilije, otharliijhe, s. m. a grave, burying
place.
Ocí]í, otir, s. f a headland; a ridge or bank
jutting into the sea.
OctiAc, otrach, s. m. dbt, ordure, dung; a dung-
hill.
Oc^A]', othras, s. m. a disease, disorder, ulcer,
pustule.
Oc|iA]'AC, othrasach, a. sick, diseased, ulcer-
ous.
Oc]iA|-CA, othrascJia, s. m. an hospital.
REMARKS ON THE LETTER P.
p is the thirteenth letter of the Irish alphabet,and ranked among the hard consonants, called in Irish coni-oineA'ÓA cimia**!
It bears an aspirate, and then pronounces exactly like the Greek 4>i, and is nnmbered among the rough consonants, called
cotifOitie.xi)0i jAplSA. This letter is called in Irish peic bo^. Our grammarians do not inform us from what tree it
borrows this appellation, and O'Flaherty is et^ually silent concerning it. But it seems quite obvious that it can mean
. nothing else than beic-bog, or b soft—that is to say, p is only a soft or mollifying way of expressing b ; and the reason of
it is, because originally they were the same letter, and p was not used in the Irish language before our knowledge of the
Latin, in the time of Saint Patrick. In our old parchments we find these two letters taken indifferently one for another;
as ppúcic, a boor or rustic, for bpúcAc; Lat., brutum; peiT^;, or piifc, any beast, forbéii-c; La.t. , bestia; oóip, to
them, for oóib ; -pp, you, for pb, etc. Arid in like manner, b is very often set before any word beginning with p, in
which case /) is not pronounced, although it seems to be a primary letter ; as Ab-pian, their pain ; Lat., pteiia; AD-piMACiiil,
theird.'anger ; hiit.j periciiluni ; a b-peOLCAX), their sin; Lat., peccatum ; pronounced A bi