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Old Irish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adverb
etir
- at all
- 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.
- 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. 63d1
amal ní bimmis fíu ní etir- as if we were not worth anything at all
Descendants
Pronoun
etir
- third-person singular of eter
- between him/it