Old Irish

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Etymology

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Univerbation of arna (so that…not) +‎ ·tomnad (third-person singular past subjunctive prototonic of do·muinethar)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ar͈n͈aˈtoβ̃nað]

Verb

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arna·tomnad

  1. that (s/he) should not suppose
    • 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. 17d23
      arna{m}·tomnad námmin duine sed deus
      that he should not suppose that I am a human but a god