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  1. m. ‘thing’ 4.16, 5.19, 12.5, etc.; a ní beag so 5.16-17; with art., anní, an ní, don ní as antecedent to rel. clause 11.2, 22.21, 30.11, 53.14, 53.15; ní is (bhus) and compar. of adj.,  ní is fiadhánta 3.16, ní is foirbhthe 5.5, etc.; pl. neithe 4.16, 15.12, etc.
  2. neg. partc. 6.17, 8.2, etc.; see Introduction, p. 31
  3. neg. of copula, see Introduction, p. 36

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

(cf. TS ni, ani); mo ní, my property 17 20; dhocht um ní 58 1; an ní (price) a-deirim 31 13; mór an ní (deed, happening) 50 9, 63 2; ní (part) do 11 27; téid ní deit decreases somewhat 6 10; ní chuirim le the method I adopt to 66 11; in compar. clauses 32 25, 36 30; ní as a n-, ní fa n-, ní uma n- “and consequently” (lit. a thing owing to which . . .) 6 11, 21 9, 67 33; ní istigh 69 21.

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.

  1. pron. (some)thing 413, 446, 603, 874. With compar. ní as faide 2183.
  2. ní’ neg. part before verbs (ní h- before passives); ní dhiongna 41, ní fuighthir 62. With ro; nír; nír léig. 17.

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

thing, 127, gein. neithi P, néithi Na, 956, neith, 1624, 3342, 4469, néith, lch. 74 n. 1, iolra gein. neitheadh, 1214, 1801, 2126; le coibhn. an chopuil roimh bhreischéim na haid.: ní as, 3482, 3594, nías, 1426, 4737, 5744, 5893, 6523, nias, 3373, lch. 197 n. 3, nísa, 2892, 2906, 3564; ní as lugha dhe, at least, 1777-8, 1956, 2210, 3373.

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

m., thing; gen. neith; pl. neithe.

Stories from Keating's History of Ireland. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.

  1. (asp. foll. verb.), not, 192, 251 (but ní bhfuair, 2562; ní bhfuighbhir, 3253; ní bhfuighbheadh, 3093, etc.); before past tense with particle ro, níor, 609;--as neg. of copula (not asp.), ní hionann, 225; ní beitte, 783; with ro and past tense, níorbh, 3374; níor, 3372
  2.  m., thing, 4093, 3498, 3558; gen. neith: déanmhas neith, ‘effect,’ 1229; pl. neithe, 7124; gen. neitheadh, 1312; dat. neithibh, 9144; before compar. adjj., ní sa mhó, 4544, 7165; ní sa mheasa, ‘worse,’ 5316; ‘quod gravius est,’ 7359; 8343; tig ní sa luaithe, ‘pervenit citius,’ 10331; ní budh faide, ‘diutius,’ 5541. See aní 
 

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