beatha

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f. ‘life’, ‘life-span’; an bheatha mharthanach 14.3; gen. sg. beatha 12.14, 13.6, etc.; acc/dat. sg. beatha 33.19, 36.3, 52.5; beathaidh 31.18; beathaigh 29.11; ‘nourishment’, ‘food’ 28.11-12; ‘livelihood’, mo bheatha fén do sholáthar 19.8; gen. pl. beathuighe “cures” 43.3, 43.6; with prefix, déghbheathaigh (dat. sg.) 25.10

Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma: Seaán Ó Cearnaigh's Irish primer of religion, published in 1571. Editor: Brian Ó Cuív.

(1) life, passim. na beathadh thall, of the life that is to come, 1160. (2) sustenance, nourishment, 5617. Hence beathoigh, nourish, sustain, 5685.

Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an Chrábhaidh. Author: Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire. Editor: Thomas F. O’Rahilly.

property, estates, IV 260, 290.

Five seventeenth-century political poems. Editor: Cecile O’Rahilly.

  1.  f., life, property, 4585; gen. id., 107; dat. –aidh, 108
  1. gen. of bioth, q.v.

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.