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Irish
Pronunciation
Adverb
de dheoin
- intentionally, willingly
- Antonym: d'ainneoin
Preposition
de dheoin (plus genitive or possessive determiner, triggers no mutation)
- intentionally or willingly on the part of, of (someone's) own accord
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 86:bə rī wȧ lm̥ fis ə ve ām, mā rińə šē ē dā jōn fēn.- [Ba rí-mhaith liom fios a bheith agam má rinne sé é dá dheoin féin.]
- I would very much like to know if he did it of his own accord.
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