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Old Irish
Etymology
Literally “under the stroke of”
Pronunciation
Preposition
fo bíthin (with genitive)
- Alternative form of fo bíth (“because of”)
Conjunction
fo bíthin
- Alternative form of fo bíth (“because”)
- 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. 59b9
fo bíthin ara·chíurat- because they will perish
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bíth”, 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, § 858, page 537; reprinted 2017