cininfil

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of cini (although ... not) + n- (us) + ·fil (is/are)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲinʲinʲˈfʲilʲ/

Verb

cinin·fil

  1. although we are not
    • 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. 16b9
      Ní indráigne dúib, cinin·fil lib, ar idib maithi cene.
      It is no detriment to you pl, though we are not with you, for you are good already.
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