Citations:asbeir do

Old Irish citations of asbeir do

‘to call’

• c. 800, Wb. 15^d20:

  combuisse ciasberthe peccatum di

  wherefore it is just that it should be called ‘peccatum.’

• c. 800, Wb. 21^c7:

  .i. comthinól innanóib asberr tempul doib hóre atreba crist indib

  i.e. the congregation of the saints, they are called ‘a temple,’ since Christ dwelleth in them

• c. 845, Sg. 3^b6:

  .i. ɔepertar doib ylementa

  i.e. so that they are called elementa

• c. 845, Sg. 73^b8:

  .i. bit dechomsuidigthi asbertar mad hed insin asberthat díib

  i.e. they will be called decomposita, if that be said of them

• c. 850, Tur. 110e:

  .i. is airi asberthe emisarius don buc stóridiu .i. airindí asfóite fon díthrub

  i.e. ’tis for this that the historical he-goat used to be called emissarius, i.e. because it used to be sent to the desert

• c. 875, Ml. 14^d13:

  .i. conid sain int hí dianaiperr impius ⁊ peccator híc

  i.e. the persons called impius and peccator here are different

• c. 875, Ml. 55^c17:

  .i. ainm maicc asbered saul dúduaid

  i.e. Saul used to call David by the name of son

• c. 875, Ml. 114^a2:

  .i. apro[no]men asber tuum .i. as dudia teit lesom anisin

  i.e. the pronoun which is called tuum, i.e. that that applies to God with him

• c. 875, Ml. 114^a7:

  .i. plebs dei asṅdanbertheni ón

  i.e. we used to be called plebs Dei

• c. 875, Ml. 123^c8:

  is airi asbertar prímgeindi dosuidib huare saithraigte in doini friu ⁊ noscar[a]t amal chlanda ⁊ ní amal gnímu

  therefore are they called first-born, because men labour at them, and love them like children and not like works

Abbreviations

• Ml. = Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thes. 1:7–483.
• Sg. = St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thes. 2:49–224.
• Thes. = Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (1901–03, Cambridge University Press; reprinted 1975, 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, 2 vols.
• Tur. = Turin Glosses and Scholia on S. Mark, published in Thes. 1:484–94.
• Wb. = Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thes. 1:499–712.