Citations:ernaid

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Old Irish citations of ernaid

‘to bestow, grant’

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  • 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. 25a31
    Ra·ǽra Día duún ǽm!
    May God grant it to us, indeed!
  • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, July 5; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
    Don martir Agatho cona chléir, caín-comul, ro·ír Críst, síd slemun, a mórseirc la omun.
    To the martyr Agatho with his train, a fair assembly, Christ has granted (a calm peace) great love of Him, with awe.
  • 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. 46b12
    Madach .i. níba madae dam m’oísitiu, air na ní no·gigius, ebarthi Día.
    vain, i.e. my confession will not be vain to me, for whatever I shall pray for, God will grant it.
  • "Hail Brigit", from the Book of Leinster, published in Hail Brigit: an Old-Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn. ed. and trans. Kuno Meyer. Halle a.S., M. Niemeyer, 1912, stanza 23
    Ba rí Ailill ernad rath, fris·ndressed cath cródond crúaid...
    Ailill was a king who would bestow favour, against whom a fierce blood-dark battle-host would arise...