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Old Irish
Etymology
ar (“on account of”) + éicin (“necessity”, dat. sg.)
Adverb
ar éicin
- under compulsion, by force
- 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. 27c9
.i. air-nap ár écin da·gnet- i.e. that it not be under compulsion that they do it
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