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Old Irish
Etymology
From an- + úas (“over, above”), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsos (“above”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewpso- (“above”) (compare Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi)).
Pronunciation
Adverb
anúas
- from above
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102a15
Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.- They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.
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