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bcginning. gan tús gan deireadh, 6101. ar tús, first (adv.,) first of all, 667, 822, 846, 1802, 3240, 5848, 7090. ó thús, id., 268, 608, 1852, 2228, 2947, 3152, 37°5, 5271, 5674, 5807, 6531, -37, 6676, 6935 ; al. ó thós, 4497, 5330. (As Span. equivalents may be noted ‘ primero,’ 667, 5141, 6123, 6537, ‘ lo primero,’ 5807, ‘ primeramente,’ 268, 3152.). In 6616 ó thús = ‘ at first,’ ‘ en los principios.’ (tús is almost confined to the phrases ar tús, ó thús. Elsewhere the word for ‘ beginning ’ is tosach, 2084, 5135, 6059, etc. ; npl. tosaighe, p. 14 n. Cf. ó thosach, first, 4529; at first, 2242 (‘al principio’), 3636.)

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