An Irish-English dictionary - National Library of Scotland

REMARKS ON THE LETTER U.
in the Irish, wherein words consisting of vowels alone are very frequent. Nor is Monsieur Bergier's own language destitute
of words of such a frame : the eau, water, is an obvious proof of it, amongst many others. I should rather join in
opinion with the learned and judicious autlior of the treatise on the mechanical formation of languages, who reckons the
vowels amongst the radical elements of all words. Their being commutahle with each other should not deprive them of
that privilege, no more than the consonants, many of which are equally interchangeable, and promiscuously used. Before
we have done with the vowels it is fit to remark, that words beginnmg with a vowel, being of the masculine gender and of
the nominative case singular, must have the letter C as a prefix, when preceded by An, as &n z-&ii&m, &r\ c-u^bip, etc.
UAI UAI
Ua, ua, prep, from; s. m. earth, clay; see Athe. Vl&\h\ieÁc,riaibhreach, s. a proud person, I. Peter,
ocnA ; a district, principality ; see eAcr]\Ain ; V. 5.
a grandson ; a male descendant, a tribe gen.
;
ui. This is sometimes written O in Irish,
before proper names of men ; as ó llAJAttAig.
X\A\h\\e&cx), uaibhreachd, "i •^ r. ^^
., .
' V .,, ,' ( s. pride, haughtiliAiDneACAr,
uaiokreamas, r ^ °
' „ V.' ,, 1 ness, arrogance.
iiAiDjieA'p, uaiblireas, °
j
Hawaii, uahhan, see UAiiiAnti.
tlAici, iiaiclii, prep, from her.
llAbA]\, uabhar, s. m. pride, arrogance, pomp, llAicte, uaichle, s. f pride; a beard.
vainglory.
UAit), uaidh, a. distant.
llAbA|-, uahlias, s. m. horror, awe, terror; see
UAcbA^'.
llAbpAC, uabhrach, a. proud, haughty, arrogant.
tlACA, uaclia, sec uaca.
IIact), uaclid, s. a will, testament ; confession.
Uac'oa^\, uachdar, s. m. cream; the top, summit,
surface, upper part, superfice ; Wehh, nchder,
height, altitude; mountain sanicle; sanicula
montana.
UACt)A]\AC, uachdarach, a. upper, uppermost,
superficial.
llActJApAije, uachdaraighe, a. uppermost, topmost,
highest.
llActiApAn, uachdaran, s. m. a governor, prefect,
ruler, commander, superior.
llArt)Ai\ÁnAct), itathdaranachd, s. f government,
sovereignty, supremacy, superiority, empire.
tlAt), ?/a(//i, a. solitary, singular; uimmuA'o; s.
dread, fear; " tio tiAXJAij An peiix".
Uat)a, Uada, a man's name; a master.
Ua-oa, uadha, } prep, from him, them,
llAt)A]-An, itadkasan, ) it.
Uabacc, vadhacht, s. f singularity.
U At) Ami, uadhairti, v. I dread.
llA'OAjifAt), uadharsadh, s. eating.
UAt)A)ipAn, nadharsan, v. they ate; " 'o'uAt)A]t,
they did eat", Gen., xxiv. 55.
tlAtibAC-o, uahhbhachd, } r . ,
^- ^'""'' ^'°"°''-
llA^bAr, uadhbhas, r-
liA-obAfAC, uadhbkasach, a. terrible, horrible.
tiAJ, uagh, s. m. a dish; a den, cave; a grave; a
furnace, an oven.
Uajaii, uaghan, s. m. a lamb.
tlAJbA, uaghbha, s. choice, election, option.
llAib, tiaibh, prep, from ye.
tlAibiicAc, uaibhreach, a. proud, vainglorious,
Uai-ó, uaidh, ) c -i- -^
.. . . ,, y prep, from hnn, it.
tlATOeAt), uaidheadh, s. fulfilling, perfecting,
Teg. Cor.; eating.
llAitiepAn, naidhesan, prep, from him.
UATOim, uaidhim, v. I eat; o'uAij, he ate ;
xxvii. 25.
Gen.,
tlAi5, uaigh, inflection of uaj, a dish ; a cave,
etc.
llAigneAC, uaigneach, a. lonesome, solitary,
secret, hidden.
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