combin

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of co (so that) + -bin(n) (first-person singular past subjunctive of is)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkomʲbʲinʲ]

Verb

combin

  1. so that ... I might be
    • 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. 91b7
      is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu
      It is for that [reason] that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones
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