bioth

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‘world’; in phrases, ar bith (qualifying preceding noun) ‘any … at all’ 16.18, 17.6, etc.; tré biodh síor “for ever” 29.15-16; trē bhith na sīon saoghalta id. 53.5-6n; tré bhithibh siór id. 20.8-9, 40.18; in compounds, bithbheó “leuynge” 44.3, biothbhuan ‘everlasting’ 30.4

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

world ; gs. beatha, 5963. san mbioth cé, in this life, 5515. san mbioth, in existence, 3866. a bpéin budh mó san mbioth, in the greatest possible pain, 1440. ar an mbioth, in the world, in existence, 720, 6040, 6136. ar bioth, in existence, 478, 6569; preceded by a noun, (nothing, no one) at all, 193 et passim. (Note the order in obair ar bioth shaoghaltha, 2511 ; neith ar bioth eile, 2939.) ar bioth often follows gibé, e.g. gibé ar bioth, whoever, 159, 162, 1303 ; gibé ar bioth Criosdaighe, whatever Christian, 170 ; gibé ar bioth ní, whatever, 593 ; gibé ar bioth áit a mbia tú, wherever you may be, 7014. tré bhioth shíor, for all eternity, 157, 3181, 4788 (s-) ; al. tré bhiotha shior, 3838. [Cf. tré bhioth siór, Carswell, 17, 238, etc. tre bhioth sior (v.l. shíor), TD, 104 ; tre bhiotha síor (v.l. shíor), ib. 101.]

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

the world. do threise do bhí ar an bhioth, 2903

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

m., world; gen. beatha, 14, 7645; pl. acc. –a, tré bhiotha, ‘for ever,’ ‘in æternum,’ 2854; tré bhiotha síor, 6277: often in phr., ar bioth, ‘(any) at all,’ 371, 628, 766; san bhioth, 654; san mbioth, 699, 837. In cpds. boith-, bith-, ‘lasting’

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