nondabértais

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [non͈daˈbʲeːr͈tɨsʲ]

Verb

nonda·bértais

1. third-person plural conditional of beirid with the dummy particle no- and the class C infixed pronoun da- (“them”): that they would carry them
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 124^b6

     Ad·ráigsetar ⁊ robu frithorcun doïb a n-etarscarad fri Ǽgeptacdu .i. air ad·ráigsetar nonda·bértais iterum in captiuitatem.

     They have feared, and their separation from the Egyptians has been an offence to them, i.e. for they have feared that they would carry them back into captivity.