anúas

From úas (“over, above”), from Proto-Celtic *ouxsos (“above”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewpso- (“above”) (compare Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi)).

• IPA^(key): /aˈn͈uːa̯s/

anúas

1. from above
   • c. 875, 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. 102a15

     Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.

     They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

• Irish: anuas
• Scottish Gaelic: a-nuas

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “anúas”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN