Definitions for ogam

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ogam og·am

Spelling: [og-uh m, aw-guh m]

IPA: /ˈɒg əm, ˈɔ gəm/

Ogam is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in ogam (agmo).

Definitions for ogam

noun

1. ogham.
2. an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries.
3. any of the 20 characters of this script, each consisting of one or more strokes for consonants and of notches for vowels cut across or upon a central line on a stone or piece of wood.
4. an inscription employing this script.

Origin of ogam

1620-30; Irish; MIr ogum, ogom

Examples for ogam

The inscriptions upon such stones, when they are inscribed, are usually in ogam or Runic characters.

Wherever the Irish Gael planted a colony, he seems to have brought his ogam writing with him.

On two corners of the stone are inscriptions of the usual ogam characters.

The language of the ogam inscriptions is the oldest form of Goidelic with which we are acquainted.

It bears an ogam inscription on two angles of the same face, and debased Roman characters on the front and back.

The language of the ogam inscriptions is very ancient and nearly the same forms occur as in what we know of Old Gaulish.

And he wrote these quatrains in ogam, and then bade them farewell.

This he accomplished by means of four wands of yew inscribed with ogam characters.

With regard to the ogam inscriptions we cannot make any confident assertions.

ogam is an alphabet suitable enough for chiselling upon stones, but too cumbrous for the purposes of literature.