TORTHAÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
daichead, num. s. & a. Forty. 1. m. (gs. -chid, pl. -chidí). ~ a haon, a haon is ~, forty-one. Dhá bhliain is ~, forty-two years. Anonn sna daichidí, in the late forties. 2. (Followed by nom. sg.) ~ fear, bean, bliain, forty men, women, years.
ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá sé ag brú ar dhaichead bliain ó tharla sé, it is close on forty years since it happened.
Cúig chapall ~ is daichead, fifty-five horses.
Daichead míle (san uair), tríocha míle an galún, a dhéanamh, to do, travel, forty miles (an hour), thirty miles to the gallon.
A ~, a ~ is fiche, a ~ is daichead, ten, thirty, fifty.
Tá an daichead ~ta aige, he has passed the forty mark.
Daichead ~ sa chéad, forty hands make a (great) hundred.
~ mbliana is daichead, forty-nine years.
~ mbliana is daichead, forty-eight years.
~ lá is daichead, forty-six days.
Daichead bliain de sheirbhís, forty years’ service.