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'''Onn''' is the [[Irish language|Irish]] name of the seventeenth letter of the [[Ogham]] alphabet, ᚑ, meaning "[[ash-tree]]", which is related to [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''onn(en)'', from the root was *''ōs-, *osen'' 'ash'. Its phonetic value is [o].
The letter's [[Bríatharogam]] kennings are the following:
*''congnaid ech'' "wounder of horses" 
*''féthem soíre'' "smoothest of craftsmanship" 
*''lúth fían'' "[equipment] of warrior bands"
These refer to different uses of ashwood as horsewhips, wood used by carpenters, and for spears. In the Old Irish period, ''onn'' "ash" was replaced by ''uinnius''. McManus takes this as an indication that the Ogham letter names date to the [[Primitive Irish]] period.

==References==
*Damian McManus, ''Irish letter-names and their kennings'', Ériu 39 (1988), 127-168.

[[Category:Ogham letters]]