in chrud so
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in ˈxruð so/
Phrase
in chrud so
- in this way, thus
- 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. 31c11
- mad in chrud so bemmi .i. co comalnammar a pridchimme et comman dessimrecht do chách
- if this is how we will be [lit. ‘if it is (in) this way that we will be’], i.e. that we may fulfill what we preach and may be an example to everyone
- 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. 31c11
Usage notes
This phrase and its parallel form in chruth sin are among the very few times in Old Irish that the dative case is used without a preposition.