is méite la
Old Irish
Etymology
Literally “it is of magnitude with”
Verb
is méite la (past/conditional ba méite la)
- it matters to, it is important to
- 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. 29d8
- Ba méite limm ní scartha friumm.
- It would be important to me that you sg might not part from me.
- 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. 29d8
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