ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ dearg, glas, red, grey, flannel.
Capall ~, dapple-grey horse.
Tá mo cheann ag ~adh, my head is turning grey.
~ liath, grey, hooded, crow.
~ bán, dubh, rua, liath, cas, (gruaige), fair, dark, red, grey, curly, head (of hair).
Ar dhath ubh an chlochráin, blue-grey.
~ dearg, glas, gorm, red, grey, sapphirine, gurnard.
Ar liathadh an choilm, dove-grey.
Bhí ~ na léithe air, he was (ashen) grey in the face.
~ gobchaol, gobmhór, red-necked, grey, phalarope.
Tá mo cheann ag ~adh, my head is growing grey.
~ gruaige, hair turning grey.
~ (an) iarainn, iron-grey.
Éadach, flainín, ~, grey cloth, flannel.
Fionnadh gearr ~, short grey (woolly) hair.
~ bhán, bhuí, liath, white, yellow, grey, wagtail.
~a dearga, glasa, (red, grey) bedrock layers.
I leith na léithe, tending to grey, greyish.
Ag dul i ~, growing grey; getting old and grey.
An ~ a mharcaíocht, to ride the grey.
1. Dath, imir, ~, grey colour, tint.
Gruaig, ceann, ~, grey hair, head.
Tá mo cheann ~ agaibh, you are giving me grey hairs, wearing me out.
Is minic duine ~ lúfar, grey hairs need not signify old age.
Ní chíorfaidh sí ceann ~ go brách, she will never live to comb grey locks.
Chomh ~ le broc, le luch, as grey as a badger, as a mouse.
Chomh ~ leis an iolar, leis an gceo, as grey as the eagle, as the mist; of hoary antiquity.
2. Éadach ~, pale grey cloth.
Manach ~, grey monk, Cistercian.
Ceann, gruaig, ag ~adh, head, hair, turning grey.
Is mór atá sé ag ~adh, he is greying fast.
Duine a ~adh, to give s.o. grey hairs, to wear s.o. out.
Cromadh is ~, bending and greying with age.
~ dearg, glas, red, grey, mullet.
Ó dhuine liath go leanbh, from the grey-haired person to the child, both old and young.
Ní raibh ~ liath ina ceann, there wasn’t a grey hair in her head.
Na reanna liatha, the grey headlands.
Tá ~ liath os cionn a chluaise, there is a greying patch above his ear.