connachaglúaistis

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of co (“so that”) + nach- (“not”) +‎ a- (“them(selves)”) +‎ ·glúaistis (“they might/could move”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kon͈axaˈɡluːa̯sʲtʲisʲ]

Verb

connacha·glúaistis

  1. so that they might/could not move

Quotations

  • 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. 96c13
    Ro·leldar díb són, connacha·glúaistis in charbait.
    That is, they clung to them so that the chariots could not move.
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