immorro
Middle Irish
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editAdverb
editimmorro (never the first word in its clause)
- however, nevertheless
- c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 15, page 2: “Mani·tucad immurgu ní din chéttadall ni·bered a n-aill. ― If, however, he did not take anything at (literally “from”) his first thrust, he did not bring the second.”
Descendants
edit- Irish: iomorra
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immurgu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language