aran-ísar

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ara·n-ísar

  1. passive singular present subjunctive deuterotonic of ar·icc with infixed pronoun a-
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 209b13
      Iss ed inso nád chumaing ara·n-ísar and, coní enggnatar gníma, acht asa·gnintar.
      This is what cannot be found there, that actions are not understood, but they are understood.
      (literally, “what cannot that it may be found there”)