n (ad + omnae great fear , Wortk. 131 , but see Pedersen Vgl. Gr. i 169 . adamnae: adamra, Thes. ii 300.8 (Hy. i) but rhyme not strict in this poem): a.¤ mor for hErind n-uile .i. robudh plaige `great fears', AU i 322.4 . Nōe ┐ Abraham . . . immuntísat ar thedmain / náchantairle adamnae, ` famine ' Thes. ii 300.6 (Hy. i) .i. adamní (adamnai v.l.) .i. gorta .i. quia per Adam uenit dolor , 35 . In n.loc.: i Rāith Adomnae atbath Aed i nArd Macha roadnachtt, ZCP xii 235 § 51 . Cf. omna(e) as n.loc., Hog. Onom. (but see omna).

adv (see Meid, Stud. Celt. iv 72 f. and Celtica xii 108-12 ).

(a) i mb.¤ tomorrow: imbārach .i. i mba iubar solis .i. turgbāil grēine, Corm. Y 781 . Cf. O'Mulc. 749. notmairfider immārach, SR 6496. dun chath firfidir imbárach, Imr. Brain 43.4 . i mbárach, LU 9016 ( FB 76 , H). immarach (crastina die), Lat. Lives 89.8 . imbarach no innocht, TBC-LL¹ 1865. bid inniu duit / ní ba márach, Todd Nenn. 224.10 . 'na tócbaitis saír . . . de indiu, no tuited i mbárach, Airne F. 207. an duine ad-chí aniogh i niort / ag so i márach é i n-ainriocht, Dán Dé xxv 19 . fōi lais ambārach dadaig tomorrow night, TBC-I¹ 2916. TBFr. 247. ZCP iv 176.14 .

With lá: ataim nemhḟeasach in lium fein in la amarach tomorrow, LB 40 marg. sup. a ccoinne an láoi márach, Numbers xi 18 . Somet. inflected: go lān-shoillsi an láoi amāraigh, Feis Tighe Chonáin 834. timcheall an laói a maruigh, Matthw. vi 34. an laói máruigh, Joshua vii 13.

Note also: da faghadh fen amairech ina maighdin hi on the morrow (cf. b), Maund. 262.

(b) (í)ar(n)a (= prep. ar or íar + poss. pron. 3 s.) b.¤ the next day, on the morrow: romdis direchtai arabarach `on the morrow', Ml. 48d12 . uenit . . . O. . . . arrabarach, Lib. Hymn. i 46.8 . Ériu xx 164.39 . arabárach, Trip.² 147. iarnabárach, Thes. ii 329.38 (Hy. v Comm.). nocon bía luaithne de iarnabárach, Trip.² 180. arna bárach, LU 4779. isind laithiu iarnabarach (sequenti die), Lat. Lives 8.7 . PH 1250. iarabarach, Mon. Tall. 164.9 (§ 88) . arabarach, 161.16 (§ 81) . arnamairech, Maund. 262. ar na bhárach ┐ ar na bháirech cóir aráon, Bard. Synt. Tr. 18.209.21 . ar a bhārach, RSClára 13a . biit and íarum co arna bárach until the next day, TBFr. 351. cusarnabárach, LU 8764 ( FB 57 ). gan a breith có abhárach till tomorrow, RC vi 175.55 . go horbharach, AFM vi 2102.5 . See 1 búarach.

v (*to-ben-) later tubaid, q.v.

(a) strikes at, attacks, opposes; worsts, defeats: ? erchur . . . ferais fair | co tob Macc Con iar cach gair, ZCP xii 379.9 (do-boing?). dobbeotar fair defeated him (?), LL 4908 = dobeotar, Lec. 606b22 . ni thubat a meicc i n-agid mo macc their sons will not oppose my sons (?), LL 147a43 ( PRIA xix 550 § 36 ). Usually trans. (some of the foll. should perh. be referred to next section): o rotubastar Cesair `since C. had attacked', CCath. 3779 . fer nār tubadh a dteagmáil who was never worsted in encounter, ZCP ii 342 . fead na tuaithe nár thubadh, Hy Fiach. 246 . cablach nar tubadh, Caithr. CC 37 . ben nar tubad dealba ac dāim, Lec. 364b 40 . fa sciathaib nar tubad dath whose hue was never dimmed (?), 398a37 . Tuathal Teachtmhar nar tubhadh, Content. xvi 162 . ba heisidhe laithe thoisiuch in rotubadh a ttreisi, Hugh Roe 258 . an fear nach clechtann cath | nach tubhtar asa tosach who is not worsted at the outset (?), Ériu iv 214 .

(b) reproaches, taunts (with). With accus. of thing and FRI (or other prep.) of pers.: féige ní thuband fri ní, Otia i 120 n. 3 . tobbie frie a imthechta fobíth Ulad ┐ athar cast in her teeth all he had done, ZCP ix 192 (cf. x 424 ). dobí a an(a)im fria enechsom, Ériu xvi 38 § 8 . dorrubai frim eneach, TE i 4 ( Ériu xii ). arna toirbeitis a ainme (leg. ainim) ina inchaib, Ériu xvi 38 § 7 (see p. 44) (cf. Laws i 72. 29 ). da mbeith ainib bad mo for Choinculaind ised rothuibebad fris he would have taunted him with it, TBC-I¹ 2614 . rom-cháin ┐ conrubaidh (.i. tubhaidh) fri m'enech gin mháthair nó athair lium, ZCP v 523 . rothub fris a éccóir ┐ a aindlighedh fair he reproached him with the wrong and injustice he had done him (the speaker), Hugh Roe 92 . gur thubsat in macradh a braith fris, LL 387a3 . focherd i serg de, fódaig na rotubaide fria enech that no reproach might be made against him, TE § 6LU ( IT i 121 ). rotubhadh fris tláithe a fhoghnamha, AFM vi 2142 . Without accus.: rothub ri Hua F. frind has impugned us, Lism. L. 2255 .

(c) In follg. perh. simply says, declares (to): rosbói ni nochomairled | cen co labradar fri nech (cen co tobnadhur fri neuch, v.l.), IT i 97 = cenco tabnad fri nech, Anecd. v 9 (with line defective). tubh re Fer nDiadh . . . mar daleg in flath ferda co hogaib Emna a m'aenar upbraid F. D. with having left (?), YBL 336a28 . tubh dam re Fraech . . . ara focmaid leis na hogaib a hEmain, 30 .

(d) With FRI measures by (as a standard), compares with (?): cach cruthach atcíther a nErinn . . . is risin mac sin dobiter, RC xii 62 § 21 = dobiotur, Cóir Anm.² ii 45 § 157 . ba hūath fri cāch a gabāil inda lāim ┐ gach rēt ba adētchidhe la cāch dobentai frie . . . unde in prouerbium uenit `fē fris', amail is n-adētc[h]ide in flesc cui nomen fē, sic et alia ress cui comparatur (of a wand kept in burial-places and used to measure corpses), Corm. Y 606 .

Vn. tuba, tubad. Cf. tobéim.

See do-fuiben.

n a word of doubtful meaning, expressing woe, calamity, ill omen .

(a) acc. to Cormac's glossary the name given to a rod of yew, kept in pagan graveyards and used for measuring corpses and graves: ocus ba huath fri cāch a gabāil inda lāim, ┐ cach rēt ba adētchidhe la cāch dobentai frie nō dobertis trie ogham indti, unde in proverbium uenit "fé fris," amail is n-adētc[h]ide in flesc cui nomen fē, sic et alia res cui comparatur and everyone feared to handle it, and anything that was hateful to anyone used to be compared to it or they would write it on it in ogham, unde , etc. Corm. Y 606 . He quotes in illustration: ... ō rotoimsed fē fri Fland (= since F. died) ib. toirsech bass de, rothoimsech [ = —d] fé fri cnes rígḟer, Metr. Dinds. iii 186z ( v 253 s.v. fé). Quoted H 4.22, 37a : ro toimsed fe (.i. in tslat tomuis) fri cnes rigfer, O'Curry 2018 . Hence, probably, fé .i. slat thomhais úaighe a rod for measuring a grave O'Cl. Cf. fae crand o tomaister uag. ut Senchan dixit crand frisinapar fae, LL 161a marg. sup. erchra fer fe fe flesg, Auraic. 4299 .

(b) grief, lamentation (?): fe .i. fearg, Lec. Gl. 153 . co tur-gabsat [Laigin] múr dergi fri Ulto. ór ba gess do Ultaib dul dar múr nderg. Ba fe ille ┐ ba fe innund immorro in comrac the conflict was disastrous on both sides (?) LL 115b40 ( RC viii 56.13 ). ba fe ille ┐ inund in comrucsin, LL 407b37 . die mbia fe innund fe ille in luan os Martartaig, ZCP xii 236 § 1 . atragat na sluaig. Robái fe [in]nund ┐ fe anall in dú sin, essgal ┐ tessgal, LL 111a42 ( RC xiv 426.16 ). ba fe ille ┐ innund in comracsin, TTr.² 1314 . ba fae do cechtar de comriachtain and acht ba messu dona gallaib it was ill for both sides Cog. 46.11 (fi v.l.). ba fae do cechta[r]de a comriachtain, 58.20 .

(c) as interj.: fé frisin fiacail `woe for the tooth!' (see supra, a) Fianaig. 36.14 . fae riit .i. cafned, LL 161a marg. sup. fē scēl `wehe über die Neuigkeit!' Ält. Ir. Dicht. ii 17 . fé mo es[s]e ol atú (.i. truagh mo bheith mar ataim), ZCP v 485 § 1 (B. na f.). Oft. with amae: fe amae RC iii 185.4 . LU 3279 ( SCC 7 ). fe fe amái, Ériu iii 141.197 . fé (trúagh) .i. ue armai .i. lim amin .i. ué, ZCP viii 107.5 . By glossators derived from Lat. vae: fe ab eo quod est ue , Corm. Y 606 .

Cf. next.

pn n, f. n.pr. and n. loc. In native tradition n. loc. derives from n.pr., but according to Thurn., ZCP xx 368 - 9 the opposite was the case. Cf. The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans 379 . Earlier teilte (d s.), Thes. ii 279.35 ( KZ lix 7 , Études Celt. iii 84 n. 1 ). See Folklore, June 1920 .

(a) n.pr. nom. Taltiu ingen Magmóir maill, Metr. Dinds. iv 146.9 . See RC xvi 50 . ben Echach, ba hardiu sestan, | T.¤ car thescad in chaill, RC xlvii 292.5 . Taillte inghean Mhadhmóir rí Easpáine, Keat. i 198.11 . gen. cnoc Tailltenn ingine Magmóir, Acall. 2348 . Cille Tailten, Gorm. 18 May n. 6 . seinfhearuinn Thoighe Taillteann Ireland , TD 26.3 . ar anóir a mna .i. Tailtine ingine Magmoir, RC xv 316.20 (Tailtiu, v.l.). echlach Tailltine, 23 . dat. ar Thailltinn , Keat. i 220.13 .

(b) n. loc. Telltown (Meath), Telton (Roscommon) (see Hogan Onom.): nom. Taltiu, TBC-LL¹ 1217 . Taillti, IT i 268.x . Tailte, TD 2.54 . acc. Taltin, TBC-LL¹ 4658 . Tailtin, AU i 508.12 . Tailltin, TD 16.23 . gen. hi tīr Thailten , TBC-I¹ 2956 . Talten, AU i 166.15 . Taillten, 322.20 . Tailltenn, Acall. 265 . Tailtean, TD 2.30 . dat. Tailtin, TBC-I¹ 2957 . Taltin, BDD² 1514 . Taltein, Metr. Dinds. iv 146.8 . Teilte, Thes. ii 279.35 . Tailti, AU i 270.14 . Tailtae, 188.2 . Cf. prima feria uenit ad Taltenam, Thes. ii 263.24 .

Compds. Taltenbruig, Arch. Hib. ii 93 § 11 . tóeb Tailltenchláir, Ériu iv 98 § 24 . do'n Tailltenmhaigh, TFrag. 218.3 .