anaid

From Proto-Celtic *anati (“to remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₁ti (“to breathe”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈanɨðʲ]

anaid (conjunct ·ana, verbal noun anad)

1. to stay, remain
2. to wait
3. to resist, to withstand
4. to cease, to stop

• c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 4157

  Anaid Findabair la Coin Culaind ⁊ tíagai[t] Connachta dia tír ⁊ tíagai[t] Ulaid do Emain Macha cona mórchoscar. Finit. Amen.

  Findabair stays with Cú Chulainn and the Connachtmen go [home] to their own land, and the Ulstermen go [home] to Emain Macha in triumph. The end. Amen.

• 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. 14^a8

  Níba cuit adíll ⁊ cucuibsi, acht ainfa lib, ar nídad foirbthi-si; it foirbthi immurgu Macidonii.

  It will not be merely a passing visit to you pl, but I will remain with you, for you are not perfect; the Macedonians, however, are perfect.

• 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. 42^a4

  Ní·guid dígail du thabairt foraib, acht corru·anat inna arrad.

  He prays not that punishment should be inflicted on them, but that they may remain in his company.

• con·osna
• fo·fúasna
• imm·ana

• Middle Irish: fanaid
  • Irish: fan
  • Scottish Gaelic: fan

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language