méid

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f. ‘amount’, ‘quantity’; cía mhéd? ‘how many?’ 14.17; an mhéid adhmuidheas ‘those who acknowledge’ 35.7-8; an mhēid bheanas lé “touchynge” 47.3, án mhéd go (nár) ‘in as much as’ 8.10, 23.16, 50.12

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

amount; only in the phr. an mhéid, which is indeclinable (in 105 it is used as gen.). an mhéid foll. by rel. vb., all that, those who, e.g. an mhéid as riachtanas, the amount that is necessary, 1210 ; an mhéid leanas é, all who follow him, 2928 ; an mhéid as éidir lé, all that is in her power, 475 ; an mhéid as éidir leam dom aimsir, all the time I can afford, 5835. Sim. 1018, -23, 1527, 2933, -62, etc. as mó a mhaith-sion iná an mhéid fhéuduim-se do rádh, than is in my power to tell (lit., than all I can say), 5897. Used adverbially : an mhéid as éidir leam, as far as I can, ‘ quanto puedo,’ 5935 ; sim. an mhéid as éidir leat, ' tanto quanto podays,’ 6788. ann san mhéid sin, in a corresponding degree, to that extent, 6277. an mhéid go, in as far as, e.g. an mhéid gu bhfuilid contrárdha dhúinn, in as far as they are opposed to us, 1595 ; sim. 2339, 3745, -87, 4507, 6154, etc. On the other hand the form méad means ‘ greatness, great number,’ and is used as the abstract noun of mór; it is always accompanied by gen. of noun or pronoun, e.g. tré mhéad a ngrádha dhóibh, 6346, méd mhire 7 mhíchéille (note lenition), 1157; sim. 360, 483, 1344, 1735, 1820, 4728, etc. Note ní fhidir tusa créd é méd an dochair do ní, 489 ; but (without créd) a thuigsin méd na contrárdhachta, 483. dá mhéad, however great, however many, 1117, 1489, 4826, etc. (see Gramm. Notes, § 15).

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

f. (also méad, m., 147, 657, etc.), size, greatness, quantity; gen. méide, 478; m. mheanman, ‘pride,’ 478, 681; gan mhéid, ‘without measure, unmatched,’ 2814; in phr., dá mhéid (mhéad), ‘however great, however much,’ 618; dá mh. eagna 7 neart...bhíos aca, 3500; dá mhéad bhíos ag dol i dtaisibh, 2053; cf. 657; an mh., ‘as far as, as much as,’ 2018, 8058; an mh. go, inasmuch as, 496, 622, 2424; an mh. nach, 1916; ar mhéad, ‘owing to the quantity,’ 6363; gá mead fiche bliadhan, ‘how many times twenty years,’ 10933

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