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Old Irish
Etymology
Literally, “its size”
Pronunciation
Adverb
a méit
- so much, so greatly
Quotations
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b11
Cair in sí a méit fris·comartatar co ndo⟨d⟩sitis huili a fide Christi? Non; do nertad Iude trá inso lessom.- Have they offended so greatly that all should fall from the faith of Christ? No; he considers this, then, for the exhortation of the Jews.
- (literally, “Is it its size that they offended that…”)
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