Old Irish

Verb

ad·ciam

1. first-person plural present indicative deuterotonic of ad·cí
   • 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. 6^a30:

     isfride imtiagam et adciam arconair

     it is by day that we travel and we see our way

   • 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. 12^c11:

     .i. iscumme adciamni narúna diadi et adcíi nech ní triscáath céin ṁbimme in corpore

     i.e. so long as we are in corpore, we see the divine mysteries just as one sees something through a mirror

Related terms

• ·accam, ·aciam (prototonic)