dagníu

Old Irish

Etymology

dí- +‎ a- (“it”) +‎ ·gníu (i.e. do·gníu (“I do, I make”) with infixed pronoun a- (“it”))

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /daˈɣʲnʲiːu̯/

Phrase

da·gníu

  1. I do it
    • 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. 14d26
      Is i persin Crist da·gníu-sa sin.
      It is in the person of Christ that I do that.
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