arnachatoirsitis

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of arnach- (“so that … not”) + a- (third-person singular masculine infixed pronoun) +‎ ·toirsitis

Verb

arnacha·toirsitis

  1. so that they might not conquer it

Quotations

  • 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. 48d27
    combad de no·gabthe in salm so: di chossecrad inna cathrach con·rótacht la Dauid hi Sión fri Ebustu .i. íarna n-indarbu á Hirusalem, arnacha·toirsitis aithirriuch
    so that it would be of this that this psalm would have been sung: of the consecration of the city that was built by David on Zion against the Jebusites, namely after their expulsion from Jerusalem, that they might not conquer it again
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