amein

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• amin, amne, amnin

Etymology

From imb (“around, about”) + sin (“that”); the spelling may be influenced by Ancient Greek ἀμήν (amḗn, “amen”), from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn, “so be it”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈβ̃ʲenʲ]

Adverb

amein

1. thus, in this way
   • 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. 12^c36

     Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?

     What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amein”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 30, 32, 570; reprinted 2017