eirbthi

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Old Irish

Etymology

From erbaid +‎ -i (third-person singular masculine/neuter suffixed pronoun)

Pronunciation

Phrase

eirbthi

  1. entrusts him/it, trusts (in) him/it
    • 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. 51b12
      ní ind fessin eirbthi, ⁊ nách dó du·aisilbi na nní do·gní, acht is do Dia
      it is not in himself that he trusts, and it is not to himself that he ascribes whatever he does, but it is to God