fo bíthin

Old Irish

Etymology

Literally “under the stroke of”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸoˈβʲiːθʲinʲ]

Preposition

fo bíthin (with genitive)

1. Alternative form of fo bíth (“because of”)

Conjunction

fo bíthin

1. Alternative form of fo bíth (“because”)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59^b9

     fo bíthin ara·chíurat

     because they will perish

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bíth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 858, page 537