Old Irish

Verb

adchí

1. Lenited form 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. 4^a25:

     .i. arnifrescsiu aní adchí súil

     i.e. for that which the eye sees is not hope

Usage notes

Generally occurs in a leniting relative clause.