duús in
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- dús in
Etymology
Contracted from do ḟius in (literally “for knowledge whether”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [duˈuːs in]
Conjunction
duús in
- if by chance
- 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. 5b20
- trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis
- through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [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. 5b20