EXACT MATCHES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
déag, s. 1. (With numerals) -teen. (a) (In counting; lenited after dó) Aon ~, eleven. Dó dhéag, twelve. Trí, ceathair, naoi, ~, thirteen, fourteen, nineteen. Cúig ~ is fiche, thirty- five. (b) (After noun preceded by cardinal or ordinal number; when preceded by cardinal, lenited after sg. noun ending in vowel and after pl. noun ending in slender consonant, except cinn) Aon slat ~, eleven yards. Trí dhuine dhéag, thirteen persons. Ceithre troithe ~, fourteen feet. Cúig chapall ~ is daichead, fifty-five horses. An seachtú fear, lá, ~, the seventeenth man, day. A dhá oiread ~, twelve times as much. 2. (pl.) ~a, tens, teens. Sna ~a, (of number) in the tens; (of person) in (one’s) teens. Tá sé sna ~a de bhlianta ó chonaic mé é, it is umpteen years since I saw him. Sna ~a den chéad seo, in the second decade of this century. Tá sé amach, go hard, sna ~a, he is in his late teens. Sna ~a is fiche, in the thirties.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ an Dá Lá Dhéag, (i) the Twelve Days of Christmas, (ii) Epiphany.
Oíche chinn an dá lá dhéag, Twelfth-night, eve of Epiphany.
~ bliana déag, ~ bhaile dhéag, fourteen years, fourteen towns.
~ seachtaine déag, ~ mhí dhéag, fifteen weeks, fifteen months.
~, an dá, chontae dhéag is fiche, thirty-two, the thirty-two, counties.
Agus é a dó dhéag cheana féin, and it already twelve (o’clock).
Dul in ~, dul d’~, to die; to expire, die out, become extinct.
Chuaigh sé d’~ leis an tart, he died of thirst.
D’éag, thit, an ~, the lease expired.
~ d’éag uaidh sin amach, I’d gladly die after that.
~ chinn an dá lá dhéag, eve of Epiphany.
~ bhó dhéag, ~ chapall déag, sixteen cows, sixteen horses.
~ bliana déag, ~ mhí dhéag, thirteen years, thirteen months.