òc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oc"

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan oc, from Latin hoc (“that”) (compare Old French o, affirmative particle, French oui ‘yes’).[1] The semantic shift is calqued on Gaulish [Term?]: compare Old Irish tó (“yes”), Welsh do (“indeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tod (“that”) (compare English that).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [o], [ɔ]

Interjection

òc

  1. yes

Derived terms

References
  1. Trésor de la langue française informatisé, s.vv. "oui", "oïl",
  2. Peter Schrijver, Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles, Maynooth, 1997, 15.
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