gidh

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(subj.of copula), g. leasg (liom) though I am loth . . . 31 28; gidh eadh, yet, 12 22; used for emphasis (“even,” etc.) before nouns or é, í, iad (usually hé, hí, hiad), and often followed by ann. 26 22 (g. adhaigh Shamhna), 28 19 (g. híCruacha), 28 30 (g. hiad fuil Céin), 62 13 (g. méad n-othrais), 54 1 (g. é an corp); it is often followed by subj., cf. g. éan-bhrón do iomchrainn-se 10 16n., g. treall do bheinn 32 25; gémadh is used in the same way 10 12 n.; gidh = gidheadh 48 4?; giodh may be stressed or unstressed 24 P 8 225.

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.

‘though it is’; also cidh, ciodh [O Ir. cid=cia with subj. of copula]; gidh ionann, 2900; gidh iomdha, 3425; ciodh olc, 987; ciodh suarrach, 10452; especially in phr., gidh eadh, ‘though it is so,’ ‘howbeit, however,’ 102, 220, 295, 406, etc.;--often, gidh bé (cibé), folld. by noun or rel. clause: gidh bé haird iona dtuitfidh, ‘whatever be the direction in which it shall fall,’ 3985; 4620, 5176; cidh bé, 3986. See cibé, and Grammatical Introduction

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