ar éicin

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ar écin, ar eicin, ar ecin, ar ecein, ár écin

Etymology

ar (“on account of”) +‎ éicin (“necessity”, dat. sg.)

Prepositional phrase

ar éicin

1. under compulsion, by force
   • 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. 27^c9

     .i. air-nap ár écin da·gnet

     i.e. that it not be under compulsion that they do it

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éicen (3)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language