Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From al (beyond) +‎ cene (without it).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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olchenae

  1. besides
  2. (after a noun or pronoun) the other(s), the rest
    • 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. 18d14
      Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.
      Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.
      (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: olchena, archena

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