in chrud so

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in ˈxruð so]

Adverb

in chrud so

1. in this way, thus
   • 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. 10^a5

     Mainip in chrud so bid anglan for cland, .i. a lliles dind ancretmiuch bid ancretmech.

     Unless it is in this way, your children will be unclean, i.e. whatever follows the unbelieving will be unbelieving.

   • 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. 10^c21

     Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.

     It would be a fruit of our labor in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

   • 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. 31^c11

     mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimme et comman dessimrecht do chách

     if this is how we will be [lit. ‘if it is (in) this way that we will be’], i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone

Usage notes

This phrase and its parallel form in chruth sin are among the very few times in Old Irish that the dative case is used without a preposition.