Old Irish

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): [in ˈxruθ sʲinʲ]

Adverb

edit

in chruth sin

  1. in that way, thus
    • 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. 13b19
      Is súaichnid, manid·chretid esséirge Críst et mortuorum, níb·noíbfea for n-ires in chruth sin et níb·scara fri bar pecthu.
      It is obvious, unless you pl believe in the resurrection of Christ and the dead, your faith will not sanctify you in that way and does not separate you from your sins.

Usage notes

edit

This phrase and its parallel form in chrud so are among the very few times in Old Irish that the dative case is used without a preposition.