nobtá
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]nob·tá
- third-person singular present progressive prototonic of at·tá (“to be”) prefixed with no- (dummy particle) + b- (second-person plural infixed pronoun): “you pl have” (literally “there is to you”)
- 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. 14c16
- Is triunni dúibsi ind indocbál nob·tá in futuro.
- It is through us that [what is in store] for you pl [is] the glory that you have in the future.
- 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. 14c16