ar accuis

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ar ˈakusʲ]

Preposition

ar accuis (governing the genitive)

1. for the sake of, because of

Quotations

• c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 55^b5

  ar ní ar accuis dechoir aní as·rubartmmar cose

  for it is not for the sake of distinction [that we have said] what we have said up to now