indamsoírfad

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of in (“whether”) +‎ dam- (“me”, class C infixed pronoun) +‎ ·soírfad (third-person singular conditional of sóeraid)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in͈damˈhoːi̯rɸað]

Verb

indam·ṡoírfad

1. whether (s/he) would deliver/free/liberate me
   • 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. 90^c19

     Ní fetar indam·soírfad Dia fa nacc.

     I do not know whether God would deliver me or not.