i ndegaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • i ndigaid

Etymology

Literally “in search of”.

Preposition

i ndegaid (triggers eclipsis)

  1. after, behind
    Synonym: i ndead
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26b7
      De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
      Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.

Descendants

Conflated with i ndead:

  • Middle Irish: i ndiaid

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