arnatomnad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• arnam·tomnad (manuscript spelling)

Etymology

Univerbation of arna (“so that…not”) +‎ ·tomnad (third-person singular past subjunctive prototonic of do·muinethar)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ar͈n͈aˈtoβ̃nað]

Verb

arna·tomnad

1. that (s/he) should not suppose
   • 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. 17^d23

     arna{m}·tomnad námmin duine sed deus

     that he should not suppose that I am a human but a god