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VOCABULARY.
a, vocative particle.
as, relative used to form superlative.
bádid, future sg. 3 of báidim, I drown ; báthadh bf héidir
agUS thainic thdbair, " perhaps " was drowned and
" had well nigh '^ got through.
bai, perf. sg. 3 from root bbu . robai, was.
chruthad, past pass. sg. 2. from cruthaim, T create ; ro t
chruthad.
cian, adj. long; is cian choin, it is an age ago ] cian
as cuimne, time out of mind; leis na ciantaibh,
from old times.
dech, adj. best; as dech, superlative of deg, good.
do, possessive pronoun^ thy.
duibdaroth, gen. sg. of dubhdaroth, a man's name.
Dubhdara, mac mic Aighennain tigherna
Luighne, decc. Dubhdara, son of the son of
Aighennan, Lord of Luighne, died. Annala R. E., ii,
944. Dubhdarach mac Domhnalláin, id., ii, 716.
erind, dative sg. of ériu, Ireland, after the preposition i.
faindle, name of a man. Faoindealach mac Maenaigh
abb Arda Macha decc. faoindealach, son of
Maenach, Abbot of Armagh, died. Annala R. E., i,
402. This Faoindealach was engaged, according to the
Annals, in two contests for the succession to Armagh,
and died in a.d. 794. It seems possible that the
explanation oinmitt oaf (' Corm. Trans.,' p. 81) may-
have been applied to the name by some writer of an
opposing faction, and that it has thus, as has happened

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