atannaigi

Old Irish

Etymology

ad·aig with infixed pronoun dan- (us, first-person plural class B infixed object pronoun) + -ni (emphatic 1st person plural); spelling is to be emended to atann·aigni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adanˈaɣʲnʲi/

Phrase

atann·aig[n]i

  1. impels us
    • 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. 93d12:
      dílmaine aisndísen atann·aig[n]i do
      licence of narration impels us to it
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