ochr

See also: OCHR

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔxr/
  • Rhymes: -ɔxr
  • Syllabification: ochr

Noun

ochr

  1. genitive plural of ochra

Welsh

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Middle Irish ochair (“edge”), from Proto-Celtic *okris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óḱris (“protrusion; corner”). Compare Irish achar, Latin ocris.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɔχr/, [ɔχr̩]
  • (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ɔχr/, [ɔχr̩]
    • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /oːχɔr/, /ɔχɔr/

Noun

ochr f (plural ochrau)

  1. side

Derived terms
  • amlochrog (“multilateral”)
  • ochrgamu (“to sidestep”)
  • ochri (“to side [with], to support”)
  • ochrog (“many-sided, angular”)
  • ochrol (“lateral”)
  • ochrwr (“sider, partisan”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ochr unchanged unchanged hochr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ochr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 28; 297
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