ocus

• acus

From Proto-Celtic *onkus-tus, from Proto-Celtic *onkus (“near”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɡus/

ocus (comparative oicsiu, superlative oicsi)

1. near
   • 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. 138a2, 3

     écndairc cian ... ecṅdairc ocus

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     (gl. personae absenti vel quasi absenti; lit. "absent near", i.e. though present regarded as absent)

2. close (of a relationship)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9c32

     is acus a coibdelag

     near is their kinship

   • The Martyrology of Óengus the Culdee

     is ocus ar cundu

     close is our friendship

Often followed by preposition do.

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Irish: focus

ocus

1. and

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• Irish: agus
• Manx: as
• Scottish Gaelic: agus

ocus m (genitive oicse, nominative plural oicsi)

1. nearness, proximity
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23b41

     imb i céin fa i n-accus beo-sa

     whether I be far or near

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “1 ocus, acus” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 ocus” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.