diandaithirsid

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of dia (“if”) + nda- (“them”, third-person plural Class C infixed object pronoun) +‎ ·aithirsid (second-person plural future and present subjunctive of ad·eirrig (“improve”))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiːa̯n͈ˈdaθʲirsʲiðʲ/

Verb

diand·aithirsid

1. if you pl improve them
   • 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. 9^a23

     Aithirgid bésu; diand·aithirsid ón is i ndeṡeircc et spirut rigthir cuccuib.

     Improve your manners; if you improve them, it is in God’s love and in a spirit [of meekness] that one will go to you.