i n-aicci

Old Irish

Etymology

Literally ‘in the vicinity (of)’

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈn͈akʲi/

Preposition

i n-aicci (with the genitive or possessive determiner)

  1. near, in the vicinity of
    • 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. 5b27
      hóre is na n-aicci ataí
      since you sg are near them
      (literally, “since it is in their vicinity that you are”)

Inflection

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