coní

See also: coni and Coni

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈn͈ʲiː]

Etymology 1

Univerbation of co (“so that”, leniting) +‎ ní (“not”)

Conjunction

coní

1. so that…not, lest

   Synonym: conna

   • 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. 14^d17

     coní·árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur

     so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give aid to you lest it be heavy on you by yourselves

   • 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. 86^b8

     coní gléu glosses ut non heream

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 co”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 554–55

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

con·í

1. third-person singular present subjunctive deuterotonic of con·icc