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the interjection "O! oh!" Irish o; See vocative a.IIfrom, ab, Irish ó, Old Irish ó, ua (hó, hua): *ava; Sanskrit áva, away, off; Latin au-, as in aufero, take away; Church Slavonic u-, Prussian au-. Also bho, q.v.IIIsince, when, with the rel. as o 'n, Irish ó, Old Irish ó, ex quo; it is merely the prep. o used as a conjunction.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.