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Old Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of for (“on”) + inna (“the”, accusative plural)
Pronunciation
Article
forsna (triggers /h/-prothesis)
- on the pl
- 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. 126a4
arna té .i. féith forsna muire- so that it may not go, i.e. a calm over the seas