taratóissed

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of tara (“over/across/by which/wom”) +‎ ·tóissed (third-person singular past subjunctive prototonic of tongaid)

Verb

tara·tóissed

  1. by which/whom (s/he) might/could swear

Quotations

  • 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. 33d10
    In tan du·rairngert Día du Abracham a maith sin, du·cuitig tarais fadeissin, ar ní robe nech bad húaisliu tara·tóissed.
    When God had promised that good to Abraham, he swore by himself, for there was no one more exalted by whom he could swear.
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