trisin

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• trissin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʲɾʲi.sin/

Contraction

trisin

1. contraction of tre (“through”) +‎ in (“the”, accusative singular masculine/feminine)
   • 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. 5^b20

     trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis

     through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [me]