mar, mur

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  1. prep. (leniting) ‘as’, ‘like’ 5.2, 7.4, etc.; does not lenite demonstratives or pronouns, mar sin 12.21, etc., mar so 8.5, mar mé fén 18.9-10; see aon, céadna
  2. conj. (leniting) ‘as’; see Introduction, p. 31

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

 
  1. mar', prep. + acc. (but cf. 24 P 8 214); + dat. pl. 92 19; m. sin damh 46 4 maraon, vid. aon.
  2. conj. as, when; + Ind. Pres., Pf., Fut. 10 6, 40 44, 41 9, 84 16, 28; + Subj. Impf, as though, mar budh 21 30, 29 9, 47 9, 94 16; mar do bheinn 22 10, 80 24 mar budh eadh go + Subj86 11, mar budh fear do luigheadh (Subj.)84 6.
 

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.

conj. (with rel. form of vb.), (1) as (modal), e.g. 3573, -90, 3614, 4125, 6712. With condl., as if, 5782. fá mar, (just) as, 818, 1012, 6558. do réir mar, according as, 1575, 2068, etc. mar as fearr as éidir leam, to the best of my ability, 5569, 6542. mur as luaithe, as soon as. 391. Cf. amhail, ionnamhail. (2) how, introducing a substantival (not adverbial) clause. taithnidh leam mar adeire blas, ' bien me plaze que dezis gustar,’ 6635 ; sim. 5266. inneósad dó mar a taoi-si ann so, ' dezir le he como vos estays aqui,’ 6884. smuainim mar ... , 5757, -63, -67, -72. (Note smuaineadh ar mar, 5176.) tug . . . dhá aire mar, 247. Used after iná (), than, 3326, 4904, 5233. (3) as (causal), because, e.g. 2173, -77, -79, 2467, 3583, 5175, 6339.

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

  1. conj. followed by relative forms of verb as; mar is cóir 38, mar tá 978, mur do nualeighis 763.
  2. mar’, mur’ prep. followed by acc. as; mur ghréin 3038, mur an bhfiodh 1254, mur na tuatha 74, mur sein 1279.

Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir: The poembook of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, Lord of Fermanagh 1566-1589. Editor: David Greene. Translator: David Greene.

rfh. agus cónasc, as like, 1029, 1656, 1852, mur, 431, 850, 1029, 1070, 1199, 1470; leis an áins. iolra, 2389, 4745.

Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe. Author: Aodh Mac Aingil. Editor: Cainneach Ó Maonaigh O.F.M.

mar [A] prep. (aspirating), like to, as (superseding, amhail); m. shaidhbhreas, 237; m. ghaoith, ‘quasi ventus,’ 550; m. thár, 907; m. an gcéadna, ‘likewise,’ 25; 7 m. sin dóibh, ‘and so on,’ 1670; mar aon ré, ‘along with,’ 60; with acc. m. mhadradha, 6553;--with the rel., m. a, ‘where’: compar an chroidhe, m. a mbí an t-anam, 1081; dá chathraigh, m. a mbiadh onóir air, 2741; m. a n-abair, 230, et passim; m. ar orduigh, 169; m. ar sgríobh, 177; m. ar fhoráil, 457. [B] conj., with rel. form of vb. ‘as, how’: singly, m. is díol, 31; m. theagmhas, 1666; m. thug leis, 444; and in the phr., m. atá, ‘that is, viz.,’ 440; m. atáid, 1813; (in indirect speech, m. go, 3507, 4375);--m. go with cond. ‘as if,’ 1836, 4270; (but m. nach with ind., m. nach rabhamar ann, tamquam non fuerimus,’ 4294); often as the last member of a cpd. conj.: do réir m., ‘according as,’ 7, 20; fá m., ‘as,’ 2937, 4532; tar éis m., ‘after, postquam,’ 1931, 3918; tré m., ‘because,’ 211, 1736, 5042, 5603, etc.

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