is áil do
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally “it is a desire to”
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to desire, wish (with the subject of the English verb expressed as the object of the preposition do)
- 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. 13b3
- Mad áill dúib cid accaldam neich diib, da·rigénte.
- If you pl desired even to address any of them, you could do it.
- 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. 13b3