n death: díbad ┐ bath ┐ ba ┐ teme ic slui[n]d epilten, LU 679 (ACC Comm.). `b.' ┐ `temel' . . . ag sloinned ega, Metr. Gl. 3.3 . bath ┐ baa . . . nomina mortis, ib. n. 2 . oiba . . . coinba, echba, duineba, amol iss ainm do bas ba (bath, v.l.), ZCP iii 245 § 55. ba .i. bás, O'Cl. See 1 bath.

n [o, n.]. Also baath, báth. See GOI § 704 , § 728 (vn. of *ba-, Meyer, Wortk. 182 , a secondary formation based on pret. Ériu xxxiv 117 , GOI § 728 ) death: athabae quasi b.¤ .i. bās, Corm. Y 63 . bōbaith .i. bō-b.¤ ┐ b.¤ bās. Is ē in bōar, 135 . baath, RC xx 170 § 31. dibadh ┐ b.¤ na menn / ba ┐ temel . . . / ag sloinned ega gan feall, Metr. Gl. 3.3 . dibad ┐ b.¤ ┐ baa ┐ bú ┐ cel ┐ bas ┐ macht ┐ ort ┐ teme de nomina mortis, n.2 . b.¤ ┐ ort marbadh fer, 13 § 25. In gl. on re chuairt duinebad: baad eipiltin ar na daini . . . amhuil ro bui in Buide Connaill no in mortlac muintire Partolain .i. amhuil gorta . . . .i. díbadh na ndaine, Laws i 50.16 Comm. co na bi baad d'eipiltin ar na dainib, iii 14.6 Comm. , cf. badad, 12.32 Comm. O'Dav. 136. dosbér uili i mbas i mb.¤ , SR 2431. ro fersat cath . . . / cen b.¤ ar fut na haidche, 3048 . secht n-athni dar Éirinn / bat ile [a] batha, ZCP x 343.18 . tiag-sa for cath cói / mór bas b.¤ dom ré `great will be the end to my life', PRIA xix 538 § 32 ( LU 9956 ). fer líath rogoin rogonar / rodaim do b.¤ co mbi toll death (?), Fianaig. 24.16 . suan re bás bricht-bodba (sic leg.); beg bríga bebsat bi b.¤ midlách, MR 170.8 . destruction: ag cur bháth ar mhór-bhailtibh, GJ iv 15.13 . ? foimned dīgal dōen dognī / inat aingil ita b.¤ (: rath) (aingil a digb., v.l.), ZCP vii 312 § 27.

In compd.: teora blīadna īarum cen meth / hi Cnámross bied ríghbath, ZCP xiii 377.9 .

n iā, f. (1 deim) darkness, dark (esp. of night): deme .i. teme . . . demi didiu fordorcha n-oidhchi, Corm. Y 437 . deimhe .i. dorchadas oidhche, O'Cl. mithig tene is'teg n-oeged | tanic deme i treb tóiden, RC xx 140 . co rānic Emain Macha fo demi ind aidchi sein, LU 10470 . dál fo d.¤ `a darkling tryst' (chev.), Metr. Dinds. iii 128 . nír bu dál deis fo demi, 70.48 . cid mór mo dām fo deme, Otia i 127 .

n a kenning for death (? blood), perh. two words: melg .i. bás, inde dicitur melgtheme [-themi LB, -time H. 2.15] .i. teme mbais, Corm. Y 862. crīn cach ala methus melgteme, teme .i. bās .i. as mbáis .i. fuil, O'Dav. 1228. melgtime v.l. for meilgtine, Ériu ii 5.11 . O'Dav. may be right in explaining as milk of death, i.e. blood . See Stud. Celt. xxxv 303-4, 306.

n iā, f. (teim)

(a) In etymology of the placename Mag Muirthemne in Tochmarc Emire darkness: cid adgaibsid iarom olsi ni handsa olse di themi maro, LU 10245 = de teme marai, ZCP iii 234.4 . an conair asrubart de temheu moarai .i. de Moich Murteme. Ass aire adberar t.¤ marai do-sside ... teme marai .i. ditiu no foscemhiel marai, 240 § 34. Cf. Murthemne ... .i. temhe (?) in mara, Metr. Dinds. iv 294.17 .

(b) death: melg themi .i. t.¤ in báis, Corm. 28 melg. Cf. mairbt[h]eim coich bē a dīe, Corm. Y 419 . melg .i. as, ut est crin cach ala methus melg teme, teme .i. bas .i. as mbáis .i. fuil, O'Dav. 1228 , see Ériu xiii 20.4 . dibad ┐ bath ┐ baa ┐ bú ┐ cel ┐ bas ┐ macht ┐ ort ┐ teme de nomina mortis , Metr. Gl. 3 n. 2 . dibath ┐ bath ┐ ba ┐ bii ┐ cel ┐ teme ic sluind epilten ... fo líth doluid ar theme, RC xx 170.14 - 16 (ACC). temhe .i. bás ... Fó lith doluidh i temhe, O'Cl. See 1 deime.