ar éicin
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ar écin, ar eicin, ar ecin, ar ecein, ár écin
Prepositional phrase
ar éicin
- under compulsion, by force
- 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. 27c9
- .i. air-nap ár écin da·gnet
- i.e. that it not be under compulsion that they do it
- 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. 27c9
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “éicen (3)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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