riar, réir

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Riar [95], réir [14], + gen. obj. service of, care of, obedience to 1 12, 5 5, 15, 88 35; r. goine 63 14; + gen. subj. 85  5 n.; do r. + gen. to serve, care, obey 15 27, 38 1, 64 35, 95 6, 96 3; ag r. fir d’onóir 11 11; do-ním an r. I serve 31 9; rannathán do r. 1 16; r. (arrangement) fa raibhe 18 16; r. (?) 64 34; -innreamh 76 8.

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.

fó réir, free, ready, 3168, -99 ; free, unbound, ‘ suelto,’ 3065, -68. dá léigthi fó rēir aon uáir amháin é, ‘ si una vez se suelta,’ 3076. [do béidir an fearso do léigean fá réir, Acts, xxvi, 32 (ed. 1681). fa réir, TD, 61, 1. 100. fá réir, Carolan, p. 242. Conn. faoi réir. Don. fa réir. Sc. ma réir.]

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

riar [N. 95], réir [N. 14] satisfaction of demand 915, 1062.

Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir: The poembook of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, Lord of Fermanagh 1566-1589. Editor: David Greene. Translator: David Greene.

m. and f., will, pleasure, desire, act of regulating, satisfying, supporting.

Stories from Keating's History of Ireland. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.

  1. m. and f., 1. act of satisfying, serving, 3610; a mhuinntir do riar don mhin, 4927, 10125;
  2. rule, authority, fá riar ainbhfine, 5367;--3. will; gen. réire, 2254, 3529; dat. réir, 619; often do réir, ‘according to,’ with gen., 20, 21, etc.

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