antúaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From an- +‎ túaid (“north”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [an͈ˈtuːa̯ðʲ]

Adverb

antúaid

1. from the north
2. on the north [+ do (object) = of]
   • 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. 67^d14

     Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.

     As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: atúaid
  • Irish: aduaidh
  • Scottish Gaelic: a tuath

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “atúaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language