comneibi
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Old Irish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]comneibi
- An adjective of uncertain meaning found only once, in Triads of Ireland 169, where it describes a lath.
- Trecheng Breth Féne (A Triad of Judgments of the Irish), 169; Kuno Meyer's translation and notes:
- Trí ruip ara tíagat cinta: cú foilm[n]ech, sleg caille, slissén chomneibi.
- Three brutish things that atone for crimes: a leashed hound, a spike in a wood, a lath _1
- 1 comneibi is a ἁπαξ λεγομενον to me.
- Three brutish things that atone for crimes: a leashed hound, a spike in a wood, a lath _1
- Trí ruip ara tíagat cinta: cú foilm[n]ech, sleg caille, slissén chomneibi.
- Trecheng Breth Féne (A Triad of Judgments of the Irish), 169; Kuno Meyer's translation and notes:
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “comneibi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language