conna
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- cona
- coná, conná (in some editions, on the assumption that the a was long)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkon͈a]
Conjunction
conna (abbreviated ɔna)
- so that…not, lest
- Synonym: coní
- 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. 27c4
- Ɔna tíssed etir in dígal; níba samlid insin, acht du·fïastar tra cenn-som.
- So that the punishment should not come at all; that will not be so, but punishment will be inflicted because of them.
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, § 896, pages 554–55
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