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Old Irish
Etymology
From the same source as nách.
Pronunciation
Particle
nacc
- not
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2c4
Cain ro·noíbad Abracham tri hiris? In tree ǽm didiu fa nacc?- Hasn’t Abraham been sanctified through faith? Through it then indeed or not?
- 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. 90c19
Ní fetar indam·ṡoírfad Día fa nacc.- I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.
- 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. 91c1
No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.- I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand whether it had departed or not.
Usage notes
Does not directly modify a verb; found chiefly in the formula in…fa nacc (“whether…or not”).
Descendants
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “nacc, naicc”, 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, § 367, page 541; reprinted 2017 (Please provide a date or year)