GLOSSARY.

7639: compare 144, 7736, 7920. — 3°. In the phrase riccim a less original: riccim a less; a common Old Irish idiom, meaning "I stand in need of" or "I require":

• 3494: no-co recat a less omun in choimded do beth forru, "they do not need to have the fear of the Lord upon them."
• 1521, 3963, 4373, 4839, 57, 4960, 5205, 5814, 20, 49, 6001, 7402, 7843, 46, 63, 66, 7939.
• Even used with the verbal noun:
  • 5816: ir-riachtanus a less taige óiged, "in need of hospitality."
  • 7554, 67, 6041, 6157.

— 4°. With independent numerals:

• 7499: a haen díb, "one of them."
• 5220: a dó indises Lucás, "Matthew says one, Luke says two."
• 5482: a do ar sechtmogat, "the number is seventy-two."
• 3374: da fhiadain no a tri, "two witnesses or three."

— 5°. In the phrase as a, used as a substitute for the genitive of the relative pronoun equivalent to "whose" or "of which":

• compare 1354: in bannscál is a mac no-s-ícc G., "the woman whose son G. had healed."
• 6264^2: Michael, as a lith 7 as a foraithmet, "Michael, whose festival and commemoration."
• 6394: in t-árchangel as a guth res-a n-erigfe, "the archangel, at whose voice [the dead] will arise."
• 6491: a uli doine is a sailechtu fil, "O all you men, whose hope is in the Lord."
• 6510, 12^3, 6958, 7161.
• With the pronoun omitted: 6667 in t-í is 'aitreb fil a nim, "He whose dwelling is in heaven."

— 6°. Often used with verbal nouns expressing state or position, in conjunction with the preposition in, to form a sort of present participle:

• 623, 629: i n-a shessom, "standing."
• 92, 102, 550, 639, 1981, 5159, 6222: i n-a tost, "silent."
• 762, 1010, 2316, 5846: i n-a lige, "lying."
• 1084, 3170: i n-a suide, "sitting."
• 3048, 49, 60: i n-a cotlad, "asleep."
• 7488: i n-a chómanaide, "dwelling."
• 7532: 7 iat fén i n-a suan, "while they themselves were asleep."

— 7°. Idiomatically used with the verb to be, when the predication of a noun is only possible through this periphrasis a roundabout way of speaking; here, using "in his/its [noun]" to mean "is a [noun]":

• compare 376: co mbui i n-a lobar moel, "he was a bald leper."
• 2573: ro-bói 'n-a rig, "he was a king."
• 2677: beth 'n-a mac mna pósta, "he was a legitimate child" literally: "being in his son of a married woman".
• 3623: co ra-b 'n-a luaithred, "the earth will be burnt up, so as to become ashes."
• 6269: a beith i n-a chóraid chalma, "his being a brave champion."
• 7238: co mbatar i n-a niúl gel imme, "so that the angels were a white cloud around him."
• 7321 (7612, 7706, 75, 7809): adbar ata 'n-a peccad, "a cause that is a deadly sin."
• 7322: ata i n-a éthech, "it is a lie."
• 7324: luige, ce raib se i n-a fhir, "an oath, even if it were a truth" (compare 7343).
• 7359: atat mo pheccaid i n-a n-eri throm, "my sins are a heavy burden."
• 7415: in comfhat bís i n-a chuilén, "while it is a puppy."
• 7430: ata sí i n-a dubachus d'ainglib, "it is a sorrow to angels."
• 7435: a beith i n-a glóir ac diablaib, "its being a glory to devils."
• 7442: ata . . . . i n-a dígbáil do'n chomarsain, "it is a loss to the neighbor."
• 7449: dia ra-but 'n-a comarsain dó, "if they are neighbors to it."
• 7534: bís arán i n-a thús da cech caithem, "as bread is the chief of all food."
• 7595: co mbí i n-a shímontaig, "so that he is a simoniac" one who buys or sells sacred things.
• Even with the verb omitted:
  • 56: cen fis accu beos he buden i n-a cristaige, "without them knowing yet that he himself was a Christian."
  • 2770: ro-ordaig C. 'n-a iúdic, "he appointed him (to be) a judge."
• Hence its use with other verbs:
  • 2728: gabaim nem 7 talam 'n-a fhiadnaib, "I take heaven and earth as witnesses."
  • 2945: ro-gab grian 'n-a fiadain, "he took the sun as a witness."
  • 5387: tarrustar ann i n-a chendaige, "he remained there as a merchant."
  • 7237: ro-artraig i n-a smút chéo, "it appeared as a cloud of mist."
  • 3750: ro-gab i n-a nóidin, "he took him while yet a child."
  • 6948: ro-hergabad i n-a gilla becc he, "he was captured in his childhood."

C. 1°. It is in very common use before infinitives (verbal nouns) to denote the subject or the object of the verb, depending on whether the verb is intransitive or transitive:

• With neuter (intransitive) verbs, it denotes the subject:
  • compare a beth (his being) 837, 1324, 2030, 2379, 2677, 5153, 6051, 53, 86, 6124, 6268, 7387, 7435.
  • a dul (his going) 2364, 4271, 5223.
  • a tidecht (his coming) 2283.
• But with transitive verbs, it invariably denotes the object:
  • compare 245, 257, 399, 475^2, 516, 552, 631, 664, 807, 941, 1218, 92, 1436, 52, 1528, etc., throughout the text.