fiach

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debt, exaction, obligation, passim. ns. fiach, 6704 n. npl. féich, 18 n., 916. fear f., a debtor, 2112, 6557.

Leabhar Branach: The Book of the O'Byrnes. Editor: Seán Mac Airt.

  1. a debt, obligation. fear fiach, an extractor of debts, 683.
  2. a raven. Npl. fiaich, 1955.

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

(60), na fiacha the exchangesbusiness transactions, 128 n; díol a bhfiach le to pay them their debts 4283; díol fiach a bhfileadh paying what is due to their poets 2573; air féin ar tús téid a bhfiachaibh he rather than anyone else is bound by the obligation 1017.

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

  1. m., debt; pl. fiacha; often in phr. d’fhiachaibh ar, ‘incumbent upon,’ 4370, 4515, 4898; gen. fiach, 6272
  2. m., raven, f. dubh, 2334; gen. féich, 7196; pl. dat., 5698

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