nísrobæ

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of ní (“not”) +‎ s- (“them”) +‎ ·robae (“has been”). Literally, “has not been to them”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [n͈ʲiːsˈr͈oβɘ]

Verb

nís·robæ

1. they have not had

Quotations

• 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. 33^b3

  Nís·robæ a ndu·rai⟨r⟩ngred doïb.

  They have not had what has been promised to them.