ogham

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  1. noun An alphabetic system of inscribed notches for vowels and lines for consonants used to write Old Irish, chiefly on the edges of memorial stones, from the fifth to the early seventh century.
  2. noun A character used in this alphabet.
  3. noun An inscription in the ogham alphabet.

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  • She'd realized right away that ogham was read from right to left, or bottom to top, and saved us a lot of time. —  Celtic Riddle
  • Translated from ogham, it said simply Axis Mundi, presumably the center point around which the world turned. —  Celtic Riddle
  • Jennifer told me you'd all been able to decipher any that turned up, ogham or something I think she said It is. —  Celtic Riddle
  • (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic). —  Ulysses
  • Cuculain descended and examined the disc, and there was inscribed on it in ogham a curse upon the man who should enter that lawn and depart again without battle and single combat with the men of the dun. —  The Coming of Cuculain
 

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  1. Irish Gaelic, from Old Irish ogom, after Ogma, name of a Celtic god; see ag- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/ˈɑgəm/
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