n
ā, f. Later dúais.
duas
,
IGT Decl. § 39
.
duais,
§ 14
.
a
p.
dúasu (: úasu),
Metr. Dinds. iii 302.62
.
gift, reward, esp.
a recompense given to poets:
doas ind immuin,
Trip.² 2899
.
rucus indīlsi ṅduais that the reward does not belong to the poet,
ZCP xv 309
.
duas teachta do file,
Laws v 212
(
.i. in duais
dligthech doberar don filid,
Comm.
).
dúas mo duane,
LL
45b22
. dentar lim-sa d.¤ . . . do chnuass na cnō cumraide a
reward from (for?) the harvest of fragrant nuts,
38a40
(
Thurn. Zu Ir. Hss. i 79
).
dorónus dōibh dua[i]n . . . ni tardad
dúas dar a hēisi,
ACL iii 296 § 45
.
tabhair [ar] mo dhán . . . |
díolgadh m'uilc gidh daor an d.¤
,
A. Ó Dálaigh xvii 3
.
Colum
Cille nar críon duais,
BNnÉ 253
.
dofucus in mboin-sea i
nduais n-airchedail,
IT ii2 244
.
i nduais filed,
Laws v 128
.
eochair duaisi duana songs bring forth gifts,
ZCP vi 270
.
do
chuingid duaisi duaine,
Acall. 5488
.
iar femed na duaisi,
RC xii 119
.
duasa cinnte ar son a nduan ┐ a ndréacht,
Keat.
iii 1498
.
cia dobheir uaidh duasa ar dhántaibh?,
Keat. Poems
518
.
rí is mō do dāil do duasaib ┐ derlaicib d'filedaib,
BB
333a26
(late entry).
ar duasaibh duanmholta,
AFM vi 1906
. In
wider sense, of a gift in general:
doss .i. fili quasi duass .i.
tinscra,
Corm. Y 459
;
O'Mulc. 323
.
Deissi .i. duaisi ar is a
tinnscra mhná tucad doib ferann,
Cóir Anm. 169
. cf.
BB
251b39
(= dúis?). duais do chionn chomaoine a gift in return
for kindness,
KMMisc. 346
. is curata an seasamh le ar
bheanadar duais ar bith the stand whereby they wrung any
boon at all,
Ó Bruad. iii 166
.
Fionn fial na nd.¤
,
Oss. iv 54
.
ben dian fri duasu eager for gifts,
Metr. Dinds. iii 302
.
Compds.
¤bog
yielding (liberal) in gifts:
Guaire duasbhog,
Keat. Poems 829
;
1353
.
¤línmar: Nualuidh dhuaislíonmhar
abounding in gifts,
3 C 12, 257.12
.
¤mór: degfher duasmhór
dána `accustomed to rich guerdons',
SG 337
. saoi dearlaictheach
duasmhór deigh-einigh
munificent
,
AFM v 1724
;
vi 1996
.
¤ordairc (airderc):
tar éis Cormaic, an daonnachtach d.,
3 C 13, 832.5
.
¤úr: an triathfear d. whose bounty never withers,
Ó Bruad. xiii 19 n.
See dúis, with which this word is somet. confused (esp. in
pl. dúaise).