ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Chuir sé ~ air féin, he bent, hunched, his back.
Do dhroim a chromadh, to bend one’s back; to get down to work.
~ na hoibre a chur ort féin, to bend one’s back to the work, to get down to it.
Ní fhéadaim mo chos, mo dhroim, a fheacadh, I can’t bend my leg, my back.
Níl ~ mo dhroma ionam, I can’t bend my back.