eadamar

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surely, 1447. [From Mid. Ir. ro-fhetammar, we know. For the present usage cf. note in GJ, 1909, p. 310. Sim. eadamar, TD, pp. 12, 133, DG, pp. 47, 66, ITS, xx, 160, §104 ; eadamair, DG, p. 12 ; adamar, Lr. C. A. B., 162, §13 ; adamair, Ir. Texts, 11, 107, §27, DBr, III, pp. 118, 172 (misunderstood and mistranslated) ; eaadamar (sic), Sermons 1711, p. 6, 1. 3 ; adamar, ‘ surely,’ given among adverbs by Mac Curtin, Grammar, 1728, p. 75.]

Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an Chrábhaidh. Author: Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire. Editor: Thomas F. O’Rahilly.