breath, breith

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[179], breith [14], b. mhór solemn award (legal term?) 31 8; b. ríogh a king’s judgment 18 10; a-tá mo bh. le I judge in favour of 31 20; mo bh. shaor my acquittal (?) 84 29; b. i n-  judgment in matter of 86 9; a-tá de bh. orm bheith, I am condemned to be 81 11; mo bh. my will, intention 64 32; b. ainiuil de, puzzlement about 67 24; b. riaghtha, decision to torture 50 18; mo bh. ar, my judgment about 77 30; imrim mo bh. ar, I wreak my will on 73 10; ar bh.+gen., at service of, in obedience to 30 31, 58 17, 59 8, 60 45; ar bh. do given to, etc. 7 8, 29 28; do bh. +gen. by will, decree, of 38 15, 58 16, 78 6; dom b., in my belief 11 34; beirim b. (le) I judge (in favour of) 7 41, 14 25, 17 1; beirim b. idir I judge between 40 15; beirim do bh. gníomh do dhéanamh I decide to do a thing 24 18; beirim do bh. ort duine do bheith, I decide in thy case that a person be ... 22 14; -aga 61 20; loghadh 62 24.

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.

judgement, sentence, 907; gu. -eithe 67, ag díol a bhreithe aithridhe, when preforming his penance, 2811; tu. -eith 893, 962.

An Teagasg Críosdaidhe. Author: Bonabhentura Ó hEodhasa, O.F.M.. Editor: Fearghal Mac Raghnaill, O.F.M.

a giving, judgement, decision, legal award. breath lena bhú ní bheireann, 293-6 n.’ breath na cléire, the judgement of the poets, 407; breath a meanman, whatever they wished (lit. the judgement of their minds), 1830 ; dá ró críoch Banbha ar breith, if Ireland is to be awarded, 3561

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

breath (179), breith (14), b. chosmhail 2024; b. Chathbhaidh ó 2186; do bhreith 2021.

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

f., judgment, sentence, 249; b. bháis, 3259 (breith b. 3248); gen. breithe, 3262; pl. –a aithrighe, penances, 4002; see also breith

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