Word.ws English Dictionary

ochdamh

ochdamh noun: an obsolete Scots unit equal to ¹⁄₈ daugh, notionally comprising 50 Scottish acres.

Noun

ochdamh (plural ochdamhs)

  1. (Scotland, historical) An obsolete Scots unit equal to ¹⁄₈ daugh, notionally comprising 50 Scottish acres.

Forms of ochdamh

pluralochdamhs

Origin of ochdamh

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic ochdamh (“eighth”), from Old Irish ochtmad, from Proto-Celtic *oxtūmetos.

Questions about ochdamh

What does ochdamh mean?
Ochdamh means an obsolete Scots unit equal to ¹⁄₈ daugh, notionally comprising 50 Scottish acres.
What part of speech is ochdamh?
Ochdamh is a noun.
What is the plural of ochdamh?
The plural of ochdamh is ochdamhs.

Words near ochdamh in the dictionary

  1. ochanee
  2. ochava
  3. ochavo
  4. ochavos
  5. ochazuke
  6. ochdamh
  7. ochdamhs
  8. oche
  9. Ochelata
  10. Ocheltree
  11. Ocheltrees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ochdamh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ochdamh.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ochdamh. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.