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Old Irish
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donaibhí
- Univerbation of do (“to”) + *inaibhí (“the one who”, dative plural)
- 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. 35a17
Air cía dunaibhí do·foirmsed?- For to whom would he add?
- (literally, “For who are the ones to whom he would add?”)
- 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. 46c7
dona⟨ib⟩hí dïand·rérchoíl intí Día- to those for whom God himself has determined it
Usage notes
The attestation at Ml. 46c7 is written donahí, which is probably simply a scribal error, but may indicate a conflation of the dative plural with the accusative plural form innahí.