Old Irish

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Etymology

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Univerbation of co +‎ ·rabad

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ɔrabad

  1. so that (s/he) may be
    • 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. 34a4
      ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst
      so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ