dobeir ainm do

Old Irish

Etymology

Literally ‘to give a name to’.

Verb

do·beir ainm do

1. to call (to name, refer to) (followed by the genitive of the name called)
   • 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. 7^d8

     Do·beir-som ainm bráthre doib, arná·epret is ara miscuis in cúrsachad, act is ara seircc.

     He calls them brothers (literally, ‘he gives a name of brothers to them’), lest they should say the reprimand is because of hatred for them, but it is because of love for them.