arnachcorathar

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of arnach- (“so that … not”, followed by latent third-person singular masculine infixed pronoun) +‎ ·corathar

Verb

arnach·corathar

  1. so that he may not be put

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. 68b9
    cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur
    though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them
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