éigean

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[53, 54], le hé. by force 59 30; i n-é. in stress 22 2; i n-am éigne 67 34; glas éigne 76 4; all éigne 51 12; éigin “indeed” 82 26 n., cara (na h) éigne 10 3, 68 25; folcad éigne 62 28 n.; an t-é. (pressure) oinigh 64 15; do-ním é. I use violence 95 9; beart na héigne violent measures 71 17; ar éigin “by force, violence”, and “with difficulty” 21 15, 30 29, 31 15, 77 17, 24 P 8 212 (a-réigin, ar-éigin).

Aithdioghluim Dána: A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol II, Translations, Notes, Vocabulary. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

m., (1) compulsion, necessity. ó éigean, through necessity, 5844. as é. do (with vn. phrase), must, 929, etc. as é. go, must (of logical necessity), 2279, 2304, 4350, 5072. (2) difficulty, danger, 4659 ; ds. 1091, 4659. Note ds. éigin only in the phrase ar éigin, with difficulty, hardly, 496, 3500, 5288. Hence éignigh, force, compel.   vn. -iughadh, 4191. Cf.  foiréigean.

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

(53, 54), ar é. forcibly 1448, 1684, 1688, 2072, 3100; i n-é. in battle-stress 2560, 3002, 4096; re headh n-éigin 4345.

The Book of O'Hara: Leabhar Í Eadhra. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

m., violence, 1723; ‘violentia,’ 7783; necessity; in phr., is e. dam, ‘I must,’ 793, 951, 10096; i n-e. with gen., ‘in need of,’ 4835; but bhíos i n-é. ag gleic, ‘qui in agone contendit,’ 10610; gen. –in, 4263; lucht éigin, ‘the violent,’ 9623, 9929; the older fem. is found in gen. éigne; cara na héigne, ‘the friend in need,’ 9828; lucht éigne (do dhéanamh), ‘violenti,’ 10809-12; dat. éigin, 10515. See also éigin

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