in tan
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Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]in tan (followed by the indirect relative)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Irish: an tan
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tan, tain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally the accusative singular of tan (“(point in) time”) after the definite article; thus literally, ‘(at) the time (that)’. The alternative form in tain is older; in tan has been depalatalized in proclitic position.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]in tan (followed by the indirect relative)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:in tan.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 168, page 105
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tan, tain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language