ní ed a méit
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Literally, ‘it is not its size’, i.e. that is not all there is to it.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n͈ʲiː eð a ṽʲeːdʲ/
Conjunction
- not only
- 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. 23c7
- Ní hed a méit non·chretid-si act fo·daimid fochidi airi.
- Not only do you pl believe it, but you endure sufferings for 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. 23c7
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