fá-deara

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used with tabhairt, tug (ar), ‘to cause a person to do a thing’: cuirn...do thabhairt fa-deara ar a dháileamh do fhreastal, ‘to cause his butler to set out cups,’ 483; go dtug f. ar óglách teacht, 689; cf. 692, 4926, 5596, 6791. [Originally a verb, O.Ir. fu-d-d-era, ‘which causes it’; cf. mod. fá ndeara, fé ndeara]

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