- ogham stone
- noun
: a usually roughly worked upright stone placed over a grave in ancient Ireland and having at least one sharp edge on which a memorial inscription in ogham is cut
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Ogham — Type Alphabet … Wikipedia
Ogham inscription — Ogham stone from the Isle of Man showing the droim in centre. Text reads BIVAIDONAS MAQI MUCOI CUNAVA[LI], or in English Of Bivaidonas, son of the tribe Cunava[li] There are roughly 400 known ogham inscriptions on stone monuments scattered around … Wikipedia
ogham — [äg′əm, ō′əm] n. [Ir < OIr ogam] an alphabetic system for writing Old Irish, developed in the 5th and 6th cent. A.D., in which the letters are represented by various combinations of lines or notches as carved along the edge of a memorial stone … English World dictionary
ogham — (ogam) Ogham (called beithe luis nin by the Irish) is an ancient Celtic alphabet used for writing in Irish. The alphabet consisted of 20 letters made from one to five parallel grooves or notches cut across a vertical line, usually the edge of… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
ogham writing — or ogam writing or ogum writing Alphabetic script used for writing the Irish and Pictish (see Picts) languages on stone monuments, mostly с AD 400–600. In its simplest form, it consists of four sets of strokes, or notches, each set containing… … Universalium
Ogham — Die Ogam (altirisch) oder Ogham Schrift (neuirisch) (irisch, sprich Ogəm oder O em) wurde in Irland und in einigen westlichen Teilen Britanniens bzw. Schottlands (Scottish Gaelic Oghum) ca. im 4. bis 6. Jahrhundert dazu benutzt, an den Kanten von … Deutsch Wikipedia
ogham — /og euhm, aw geuhm/, n. 1. an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries. 2. any of the 20 characters of this script, each consisting of one or more strokes for… … Universalium
ogham — og•ham or ogam [[t]ˈɒg əm, ˈɔ gəm[/t]] n. 1) ling. an alphabetical script used for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish from about the 5th to the 10th century 2) ling. any of the 20 characters of this script, each consisting of strokes for… … From formal English to slang
Ogham Alphabet — This alphabet, which was said to have been devised by Ogma, was originally intended for incised inscriptions on stone and other hard materials. It consisted only of straight lines of various lengths and slope, which made it easy to carve … Who’s Who in non-classical mythology
ogham — /ˈɒgəm/ (say oguhm) noun 1. an ancient Irish alphabetical script consisting of straight lines drawn or carved perpendicularly or at an angle to a single long line or to the edge of a stone or piece of wood. 2. a letter of this script. Also, ogam …
