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Old Irish
- cona
- coná, conná (in some editions, on the assumption that the a was long)
Etymology
Univerbation of co (“so that”, nasalizing) + ná (“not”)
Pronunciation
Conjunction
conna (abbreviated ɔna)
- so that…not, lest
- Synonym: coní
- 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. 27c4
Ɔna tíssed etir in dígal; níba samlid insin, acht du·fïastar tra cenn-som.- So that the punishment should not come at all; that will not be so, but punishment will be inflicted because of them.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 co”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 896, pages 554–55; reprinted 2017 (Please provide a date or year)