beag

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is b. do chodail sé 95 31; (is) b. (few) a-tá 38 5; is b. dá (small part of his) bhreathaibh 64 32; is b. re maoidheamh dhamh é 28 6; madh b. mór 85 2; is b. nach . . . (almost), 32 18, 69 24; (is) b. dtarbha, bhfoladh, etc. é 67 38, 100 2; is b. liom, damh, é (I think, feel) it enough 100 33; gá b., gár bh. (damh) is it not enough 13 24, 34 5, 17, 76 15, 88 18, 98 7; b.+gen. little of 12 25; b. (a little, few) de 12 1, 27, -anóir 19 8; -sheadh 94 27.

Aithdioghluim Dána: A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol II, Translations, Notes, Vocabulary. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

small. Used substantively after the copula, = few, 2257, 2931 (roi-bheag), 3498- a bheag nó a mhór do, little or much of, 6544. Cf. go beag ná go mór, 5519.

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

(65) is b. do chreid few believed 938; ní b. do thír é it is enough for a land 923; ní b. é dá fhaire he is guard enough for it 1047; (is) b. nach almost 501; gár bh. é vid. .

The Book of O'Hara: Leabhar Í Eadhra. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

little, (fem. acc.-dat., big, 2480, 6760, 10108); -in phr. a bheag nó a mhór, ‘its little or its much,’ = ‘at all,’ 2563, 7143, 9841; fá beag leó ‘they did not hesitate,’ 3065;--in phr. beag nach, ‘almost,’ 2975, 3772, 6099, 9324; is b. bhíos, ‘there are few,’ 4389

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.