nímbia

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of ní (“not”) + m- (“me”) +‎ ·bia (“will be”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n͈ʲiːmˈvʲi.a/

Verb

ním·bia

  1. I shall not have; literally “will not be to me”
    • 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. 10d23
      Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.
      If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.
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