ochd

Scottish Gaelic

**Scottish Gaelic cardinal numbers**
< 7	8	9 >
Cardinal : ochd Ordinal : ochdamh

Etymology

From Old Irish ocht, from Proto-Celtic *oxtū, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔxk/

Numeral

ochd

eight

Usage notes

Without following noun takes the form a h-ochd.

Derived terms

ochd-oisneach (“octangular”)
ochd-shliosach (“octagon; octagonal”)
ochd-shlisneach (“octagonal”)
ochdad
ochdamh
ochdnar

References

A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

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