n-íírr

Usage notes
The normalized spelling reflects the manuscript spelling  at Ml. 77$a$10, which the editors of Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus interpret as  +  +  and translate it  However, the negative interrogative particles in Old Irish are, , and (in the Milan glosses sometimes) , but not  alone, so Thurneysen interprets the manuscript's  as , i.e.  plus the eclipsed form of. The translation is thus as a positive question rather than a negative one.

At Ml. 77$a$15 the same phrase is spelled, which modern editors interpret as an erroneous transposition of two letters, the intended reading being. Here again, Stokes and Strachan interpret this as the negative question but it is more likely to be the positive question. Both gloss 10 and gloss 15 are referring to the Latin phrase, which is not a question at all but a negative hortative.

The double í is difficult to interpret; etymologically one expects two short vowels in hiatus, and Thurneysen normalizes the spelling to.