n u, m. (frith-com-mess) lit. `calculating, taking
measures against' hence
(a)
keeping watch, guarding:
f.¤
.i. comét,
O'Dav. 922
.
ri foraire ┐ ri freccomas i n-iathaib
bidbad,
LL 171b30
(
CRR 6
).
(b)
query (?) ; reservation, precaution (?) :
f.¤ .i. ... fiarfaige, ut est ata dá f.¤ i cairde .i. da fircoimét uais nó da
frecmaic isin cairde .i. na garmanna anacail,
O'Dav. 922
.
f.¤ .i. imcomarc ... atat da freccomus i cairde,
H 3.18, 81a
(
Phil. Soc. Trans. 209
).
O'Mulc. 594
. atait da recomus [plene]
dono a cairde .i. atait da fir-athcomarc uais isin cairde :
asbeir in fer cairde ... nacham-beir co haes cairde (.i. do
denam fogla) ┐ asbeir o ricc (.i. in baile) in fuil nech do aes
cairde taetsat [leg. taet] as ┐ bid anacal doib There are two
precautionary questions (?) in a treaty of friendship, the friend
says: do not bring me (to plunder) those with whom I have a
treaty, and when he reaches (the place) he says are there any
with whom there is a treaty [if so] let them come forth and they
shall have protection, (in a statement on the legal aspect of
plundering persons protected by covenant)
H 3.18, p. 262a
(
O'Curry 522
). These exx., in which f.¤
is either plene or with
us symbol for ultimate, do not support Mac Neill's plausible
emendation,
frecmarc,
Ériu xi 115
.