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cortha
Meaning or Explanation (EN): tired, weary
Usage (EN): cortha amach - tired out. cortha dem shaoghal - tired of my life. "Thá me chomh cortha le madra" ? (nath) - Dog-tired.
Tuilleadh -
cortha
Meaning or Explanation (EN): bored
Usage (EN): Bhí me cortha dem saoghal. - "tired of my life". ag déanadh leannta dubha - in a melancholy mood. "Ná bíodh aon leannta dubha agaibh im dhiaidh-s" - (m'áintín nuair bhí sí ag fághail bháis.)
Tuilleadh -
cortha
Meaning or Explanation (EN): tired, tiring work
Usage (EN): Is cortha an obair a bheith ag grafadh aitinn.
Tuilleadh -
coruighim
Meaning or Explanation (EN): I "stir".
Usage (EN): coruighim - I "stir". Rud a choróchadh do chroidhe - something to "stir your heart", .i. to brace you up. "an grimín goirt a choróchadh do chroidhe". - The little salty bit (meat) that would "stir your heart".
Tuilleadh -
cos
Meaning or Explanation (EN): leg, handle of spade, stem, legs of stool, chairs
Usage (EN): Thá a cois briste, cois a' claidhe - beside the fence, cois na teine, cois an fhalla. cois rámhainne (ra:ŋə) = spade handle, cois scine, fé cois - underfoot, de shiúbhal mo chos - on foot. cosa a chur fé scéal - exaggerate, cosa bacóidí - hopping on one foot. Chomh mear agus bhí im chosa. - as fast as my legs could carry me.
Tuilleadh -
cos
Meaning or Explanation (EN): foot
Usage (EN): ar mo chosa fhéin - on my own feet. ar mo dhá chois fhéin - on my own two feet. Chaith me deich míle a chur tharm ar mo dhá cois fhéin. - I had to go ten miles on my own two feet.
Tuilleadh -
cos a leathadh
Meaning or Explanation (EN): to bestride
Usage (EN): a chosa a leathadh (l'axə) ar a' gcapall - get astride the horse. Níor leath sé a chosa ar chapall riamh.
Tuilleadh -
cos ar bolg
Meaning or Explanation (EN): oppression
Usage (EN): "cos ar bolg" a deanadh ortha. Rinn' na Sasanaigh cos ar bolg ar mhuinntir na h-Éireann ar feadh céadta bliadhain.
Tuilleadh -
cos ar bolg
Meaning or Explanation (EN): to trample on, to oppress
Usage (EN): Cois ar bolg a dhéanadh ortha. - To trample on them, to oppress. Rinn' na Sasanaigh cois ar bolg orrainn ar fead céadta bliadhain. - The English oppressed for hundreds of years.
Tuilleadh -
cos bacóide
Meaning or Explanation (EN): one leg
Usage (EN): ar chosa bacóide - on one leg, ag imtheacht ar chosa bacóide - Hopping on one leg. Mar a bhíodh "Cois fé chrios" ins na scéalta fiannaidheachta.
Tuilleadh
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