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

  1. 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]
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