combin
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Univerbation of co (“so that”) + -bin(n) (first-person singular past subjunctive of is)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]combin
- so that ... I might be
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
- is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu
- It is for that [reason] that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7