cach la sel

Old Irish

Etymology

Literally, “every other turn”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˌkax la ˈsʲel]

Phrase

cach la sel

  1. at one time

Quotations

  • 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. 15d9
    Non cogitare tola et accobra in betha, act cach la sel dún for imrádud Dé, in sel aile for precept. Ar seirc Dǽ do·gníam cechtarde.
    Not to think of the wishes and desires of the world, but it is for us to be at one time meditating on God, at another time preaching. For love of God we do each of the two.

Synonyms

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