oc

oc (emphatic form ocsyn)

1. third-person plural of ec

   at them

• From Proto-Celtic *onkus (“near”). Compare Old Irish ocus.

• IPA^(key): /oɡ/

oc

1. at
2. beside
3. by
4. (used with a verbal noun to make a progressive aspect):
   • 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. 16d8

     Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.

     I am boasting about you to the Macedonians.

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

• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• “oc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Latin hoc. Compare Old French oïl and o.

oc

1. yes

• no

• Occitan: òc
• Old Catalan: hoc, oc, hoch

From Proto-Finnic *occa.

oc

1. forehead
2. top, peak, summit

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “вершина, лоб, чело”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika