Dictionary Entries
téigle
(tá sé) i n-a chalam téigle, it is perfectly calm (said of the sea on a fine day); stoirim shamhraidh ná téigle gimhridh níl aon tseasamh orthaí (sean-ocal) (MMt), a summer storm or a winter calm will not last long.
stiúir
bean gan chliú ná bád gan stiúir (sean-ocal); imeó' sí chuile áit, no control over her
sóntaíl
an rud is measa bhí greamuithe go dhuine riamh a' tsóntaíl.
scannail
is olc í an scannail sa gcóir ná san éagóir, g. to accuse someone of stealing something in the right or in the wrong (it gives scandal)
sáraigh
sháraigh siad mé (the calves) bested me, got the better of me, got away from me: used impersonally: sháraigh air aon bhean fháil, he failed to get any wife; a' sárú oram, contradicting me, arguing me down.
saoghal Éabha
ní bhainfeadh an saoghal Éabha anuas mé, the whole world; an saoghal Ádhaimh is similarly used.
samhlaigh
tá an intinn chéanna ag a' bhfear thoir agus ní shamhlóchá leis é, he has the same disposition (he'd take a knife to you) and you'd never think it of him
salann
'sé an salann soir é géadhaí Iorrais thíocht go hEacaill (MC), it is like coals to Newcastl (sean-ocal).
roinn
an sagart agus a' póilí, tabhair a gcuid dóf' agus ná bíof aon roinn agad leóf, give them their due and have nothing more to do with them
reimhe
is raimhe fuil 'ná uisce
piarsaí
ó d'anam go na piarsaín nach b'éard tá ann míol mór, your soul to the dickens isn't it a whal (POR). Ní droch-fhocal é (AL).
oiread
ach orad leat héin, ní maith liom gleó (CN); no more than yourself, I don't like noise; ach orad leat héin, tá teangaidh mhath Ghaeilge aicí; ní rabh aon toirt ionntú ach orad le cuileógaí; ach orad le ceann cailleadh go hóg é, (cf. Hiberno-English) no more than another, he died young, i. like many another (PR).
hata Acla agus naprún Chliara
ná déan hata Acla dó .i. den chasúr, don't treat it like hata Acla, that is to say make common property of it (MMt). There was only one hat in Achill and only one apron in Clare Island, and everybody wore it in turn according as he or she needed it. The same was said of brógaí Iorruis, there was only one pair which was used by everybody or so the saying goes.
guth
níor airigh sé a ghuth ná a dhath, he heard nothing (AL); níl a ghuth ná a ghré ach go . . . there was nothing in it but . . .
giortaigh
giortaigh an bóthar, shorten the road; this is what the Gobán Saor's daughter-in-law told his son to do