uair

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‘time’; uaír éigin ‘some time’ 3.20; gach uair ‘every occasion’ 37.5, 43.15; én uair (amháin) ‘once only’ 32.1, 49.21; san uair sin ‘at that time’ 31.3; gebé uair ‘whatever time’ 33.7

Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma: Seaán Ó Cearnaigh's Irish primer of religion, published in 1571. Editor: Brian Ó Cuív.

[14], hour (by clock) 12 16, 75 27; do bhí u. + rel. of vb. 29 11; u. oile once on a time 6 26, 13 9; i n-u. (at time of) sluaghaidh 56 23; u. (time for) an uamhain 56 23; an u. far (when) éirigh 5 4; u. dá admháil the time to admit it 30 6; u. duit dul time for thee to go 59 16; ar an u. as fhearr 96 4 n.; tríu. uile (?) 89 25 n.

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.

time. an uair, when, passim ; an uair fá, id., 907, 994, 1204, 1467. (Cf. an tan fá, 5402 ; and see tráth.) For uair in sense of for (conj.) see ór. a n-uair mo bháis, at the hour of death, 2989. trí huaire, three hours, 1439. ar uairibh, sometimes, 893, 1420, etc. (15 exx.). an chéduair, at first, 5522. éanuair, once, 6706. The gs. éanuaire is used in the sense of transitory, brief, passing, 4781, 4807. [Cf. aisling . . . éanuaire, a passing dream, SSA, 230 ; dó bhrigh gó rabhas am dhuine éanuaire, because I was merely a bird of passage, ib., 246. Téaghadh na háite uaire | deacair d’fhior na haonuaire, Ir. Monthly, 1927, 310, §27. TD, pp. 112, 122, 267. Gadelica, I, 239.]

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

time, occasion. ar n-uair, 'in due course', 1416.

Poems on the O'Reillys. Editor: James Carney.