pòg

See also: pog, POG, and póg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish póc, from Latin ōsculum pācis (kiss of peace), via Brythonic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰɔːk/

Noun

pòg f (genitive singular pòige, plural pògan)

  1. kiss

Derived terms

Verb

pòg (past phòg, future pògaidh, verbal noun pògadh, past participle pògte)

  1. kiss
    Tha cuimhn' agam air a' chiad àm nuair a phòg sinn...
    I remember when we kissed for the first time...

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
pògphòg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “pòg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “póc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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