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Old Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of di (“from”, leniting preposition with dative) + ṡuidiu (“this”, stressed anaphoric pronoun).
Pronunciation
Adverb
didiu (never clause-initial)
- then (in that case), therefore, so
- Synonym: trá
- then (soon afterward), thereupon
For quotations using this term, see Citations:didiu.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “didiu”, 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, § 901, pages 557–58; reprinted 2017