nechtar

From Proto-Celtic *nekʷoterom (“neither”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-kʷóterom.

• IPA^(key): [ˈn͈ʲextar]

nechtar n (triggers nasalization)

1. (chiefly in the negative) either (of two) [with de or n-aí]

• 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. 25^d14

  Dos·n-aidlibea uili; ní ain nechtar n-aíï, indí nachid·chúalatar et tremi·tíagat

  He will visit them all; he will not protect either of them, [neither] those who did not hear it nor those who transgress it.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “nechtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 489 c, page 310; reprinted 2017