BLAÍ, "EXEMPTIONS."

Bla moga (mogha) musgaine (moghsaine).
Bla ech (each) aenach (aonach).
Bla ord indeoin (inneoin).
Bla con con-gal (conghal, dog-fight).
Bla mer (mear, of madmen) cuirm-tech
(cuirm-teach, ale-house).
Bla miand (of minerals) mid-clais
(meadhon-chlais, middle trench).
Bla druth (druth, of fools) diburcud
(díobhracadh, throwing).
Bla ethar (eathar, of boats) imarchur
(iomarchur, ferrying).
Bla laich (liach, ladles) linad (líonadh).
Bla fer (fear) catha (catha, battles).
Bla susta (súiste) aith (áith, an edge, a
kiln).
Bla crand (crann) cutaim (tuitim).
Bla slisen (sliseann, laths) sairsi (saoirse,
acht of carpentering).
Bla nuidlech (nuidhleach, of milch cows)
nus (nús, biestings).
Bla tarb (tarbh) darma (bulling).
Bla faebur (faobhar, of edged tools) com-
ling (comhlann, a battle).
Bla dunad (dúnadh, hostings) dal (dál, a
meeting).
Bla muc oircel (a trough?).
Bla nae (of boats, cf. naomhóg, Latin navis)
imram (iomramh).
Bla laithroit (liathróid) urchur.
Bla ceite rig (of a king's race-course,
céide) tul-comrac (comhrac, sudden
collision).
Bla rob (of animals) cubad (glossed as
cú-biadh, dog food, wayside or snatched
food).
A variant of last : bla rob caebad
(caobad, throwing up colds).
Bla tene (teine) aithine (aithinne, a
kindling coal).

Bla carbat (carbad) aenach (aonach).
Bla coire combruth (boiling).
Bla dam (damh) damgal (damhghal, ox-
action, plouging agus c.).
Bla cuithech (of a pit, pitfall) sliabh
(sliabh).
Bla moga (mogha) biail imfaebur (two-
edged axe).
Bla cumaile (cumhaile, of a hand-maiden)
lec ocus losait (leac agus losad).
Bla iasachta (iasachta, of a loan)
difoicheda (a visitation of God).
Bla arm urgal (iorghail, a contest, battle).
Bla muilind (muilinn) bleith (bleith, act
of grinding).
Bla etha (eatha, of corn) ithland (iothlann).
Bla clesamnaig (cleasamhnaigh, of a
juggler) cles (cleas).
Bla iarand (iarainn) airlech (airleach,
smithing).
Bla etargaire (eadargaire, intervention,
peace-making, mediation) imguin (iom-
ghuin, wounding on both sides).
Bla tuath (tuath, of territories) tre-ag (a
triple battle).
Bla ban catha (catha).
Bla cuaille airbi (a fence).
Bla deilge (of a brooch) dae (the shoul-
der).
Bla aindir (ainnir) ét (éad).
Bla ech (each) ech-tres (each-treas, horse-
fight).
Bla liach (liag) limad (líomhadh).
Bla cat cuili (a kitchen, cuile).
Bla cat luch-gabail (luch-ghabháil, mouse-
catching).
Bla cethra (ceathra, cattle) dind (a hill).

TOMÁS P. UA NUALLÁIN.

Is minic nár bh'fearr a bheith first 'ná last.

Is fearr ciall is cuimhne cheart
'Ná mian bruighne n'a mbídh locht
Minic sin duine tre seacht
Beart as a dtig an uile olc.