n
o, n. n
p.
écnaige,
LB 211b18
.
See SGS iv 94
.
I
Reviling,
slandering, defaming:
ecndag .i. ni d(a)g .i. non bonum,
quid peius detracere?
,
O'Mulc. 357
.
éccnach .i. imdheargadh,
O'Cl.
beim, egnach no toibheim, a Blemish
Eg. Gl. 718
(
ACL iii 169
).
eícndag comnissim,
Wb. 1c6
.
écndach
cáich,
30c6
. ná bith fochunn uaimm fein dom æcnduch
let me give no cause for speaking evil of me (gl. quid
blasphemor)
11c1
.
na dena foghluim ag mnaibh cu nach
derntur h'égnach,
Lism. L. 3456
=
Lat. Lives 105.11
(= ne
blasphemeris).
ni dénad écnach neich,
Thes. ii 327.36
.
tosach écnaig airbire,
LL 345b20
=
Anecd. iii 16.4
.
ag
éccnach a n-eascarat,
Ériu iv 212.6
. Esp. of blasphemy:
t'ecndachsu a Dæ (gl. de te sentire impia)
Ml. 91a3
.
93a11
.
eícndag ind raith diadi (maledicti gratia)
Wb. 29a7
.
du
écnduch Dǽ,
Ml. 29a11
.
43b13
.
ecnach,
SR 4694
.
PH 479
.
du ecnduch di Dia,
Ml. 72b5
.
ind écndaig dorigensat Assair
do Dia,
48b18
.
doréll for écnuch na Trínoti,
Trip. 44.17
.
LL 278a49
.
is e ecnach na Trinóti, ferta Meic Dé do chur i
lleth Belzebúb,
PH 6435
.
ní fil do pecdaib na hicat
acht ecndach an Spiruta naeib,
ZCP iii 30.28
. Of
defamation or satire by a poet:
do áir ┐ d'ēcnuch,
Corm. Y 694
(grómma).
immdergad immandergthar duine iarna
haīr no iarna hécṅdug,
Corm. Bodl. s. leos
.
atait secht
cenela aire la Feine...lesainm lenus aer-aicetal ecnach
n-egnairce...,
Laws v 228.26
.
tainsithar é o bias cach ga
eccnach, im aois ocus im innracus,
iv 384.25
.
cleas
...donidis na filid oc ecnuch,
Auraic. 1333
.
ni chlos a
écnach a cath,
Acall. 2007
. See also
ZCP v 503.17
.
viii
217 § 4
.
Auraic. 1934
.
5184
.
ni fuilit imderctha na
écnaige lind,
Anecd. v 4.10
.
LB 211b18
.
II
Accusing, backbiting, complaining of, murmuring
against: ní hobair duine maith | écnach a ṡluaig re
prímhḟlaith to complain of people to their chief
Acall.
595
. eccnach ┐ iomchosaoid do dhol o maithibh Gall ar
an Iustis gus an rígh complaints...were made to the king
against the justiciary by the...nobles
AFM v 1418.5
. téid
dá éagnach rena athair complained of him to his father
Keat. ii 5943
.
do-ní gearán ┐ éagnach ar an rígh ré
huaislibh na Spáinne,
TSh. 5491
.
is é sin do-ní Iob
d' éagnach ar an mbás,
548
.
ag éagnach ar aindísle...na
colna,
2097
. ag so mar do-ní Beda eagnach ar an
ngníomh-so deplores this deed
Keat. iii 2230
. With subj.
gen.:
Tír Cannain...nis-tā dar éis a n-ecnaig,
SR 4734
.
tú...ga gcosg soin | do bhrosd ar n-éagnach oruibh stirred
me to reproach thee GF,
Ir. Monthly 1919, 568
.
III
Complaining, grieving over, lamenting
(with gen.
or absol.):
eagnach, osnadh, uchbhadhach, eaccaoin,
Kirk
,
=
Eg. Gl. 271
(
ACL iii 155
).
scuir dot h'uchbadaigh
et dot h'ecnach imamsa,
TBC-LL¹ p. 669 n. 10
.
iomdha
agam...cás égnaigh,
Studies 1923, 80
.
aga éagnach go
mór ┐ ag caoineadh a bháis,
Each. Iol. 17.11
.
ge be
lá is lugha da egnach | ata a chumha a n-egcruth oirn,
Rel. Celt. ii 218.15
. ro eist an Coimdhe gerān ┐ ēgnach
na ffīrēn so the plaint
Fl. Earls 222.22
.
dá éagnach so,
TSh. 1388
. is é sin do-ní Pól d' éagnach... this is what
Paul complains of
2931
.
a chara, éisd rem éagnach,
Ir. Monthly 1920, 54
. rún m' éagnaigh the matter of my grief
Ó Bruad. iii 214
.