Crossword clues for ogham
ogham
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ogham \Og"ham\, n. [Ir.] A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc. [Written also ogam.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also ogam, ancient Irish form of writing, 1620s, from Irish ogham, from Old Irish ogam, said to be from name of its inventor, Ogma Mac Eladan. But this appears to be from Celt. *Ogmios, perhaps from PIE *og-mo- "furrow, track," thus metaphorically "incised line." This could be the source of the name of the writing style, which looks like a series of cuts or incised lines, and the inventor's name thus might be folk etymology. Related: Oghamic.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Ogham English) n. (alternative form of Ogham English)
Wikipedia
Ogham ( Modern Irish or ; ) is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language (in the so-called "orthodox" inscriptions, 1st to 6th centuries), and later the Old Irish language (so-called scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries). There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain; the bulk of them are in southern Munster. The largest number outside Ireland is in Pembrokeshire in Wales.
The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.
According to the High Medieval Bríatharogam, names of various trees can be ascribed to individual letters.
The etymology of the word ogam or ogham remains unclear. One possible origin is from the Irish og-úaim 'point-seam', referring to the seam made by the point of a sharp weapon.
Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Old Irish inscriptions.
Usage examples of "ogham".
It was a piece of aspen, some eighteen inches or more in length, and it was inscribed with Ogham characters.
Tech Screptra, our great library, and our scholars have shown that it was our kingdom of Muman which first brought the art of Ogham to the peoples of the five kingdoms.
On it were engraved words in Ogham and in the Latin script both in Irish and Latin.
In that library was his will, which he had specifically chosen to write in Ogham on rods of the poets.
I left it at the library and, later that night, you returned to the library and burnt it with the other Ogham sticks in order to cover your tracks.
It seemed to me that it was possible that the first ogham clue referred to a real place.
Translated from ogham, it said simply Axis Mundi, presumably the center point around which the world turned.
We would have to try and find them, to see if there are any ogham clues that go with them, and maybe one or two lines after this one to see if they are blank too.
Jennifer and I were sitting in Rose Cottage with the others, clue in one hand, ogham alphabet in the other, Jennifer regaling them with the story of our adventure.
It was this second set of clues, the ogham clues, that told us where and what.
Thurber Frances while he finished translating the Ogham document, but it was difficult.
Hoyt walked his horse around them, paused to read the ogham script carved into the king stone.
It seemed to be the four parallel, transverse lines of an Ogham C, instead of the five of a Q.
Heber and Tadhg were with Iollan, who was letting them practice scratching ogham lines on a scrag of rock behind the house.
I was writing an epigram in the ogham Datho had set for me that day, and I had stopped for a moment to think, resting my head against the tree trunk.