atannaigi
Old Irish
Etymology
ad·aig with infixed pronoun dan- (“us”, first-person plural class B infixed object pronoun) + -ni (emphatic 1st person plural); spelling is to be emended to atann·aigni.
Pronunciation
Phrase
atann·aig[n]i
- impels us
- 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. 93d12:
- dílmaine aisndísen atann·aig[n]i do
- licence of narration impels us to it
- dílmaine aisndísen atann·aig[n]i do
- 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. 93d12: