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Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
Ó Dónaill, 1977
An Foclóir Beag
Ó Dónaill & Ua Maoileoin, 1991
English–Irish Dictionary
de Bhaldraithe, 1959
Grammar
Pronunciation
trodúil
troghan
troí
troiche
troid
troidmhear
tróig
troigh
troighdeán
troighean
troighphunt
troighphuntán
troighthe
troightheach
troimbin
troime
troimeasc
troiméis
troiméiseach
troimide
troimpéad
troimpléasc
troipleog
troigh, f. (gs. ~e, pl. -ithe). 1. Anat: Foot. Ní rachainn fad mo throighe, ón ~ go dtí an tsáil, ina araicis, I wouldn’t stir a foot to meet him. S.a. tairne 1, trasna 3(a). 2. Step. Dá dtéadh sé ~ tharstu, if he should step beyond them, try to take precedence over them. Tá sé ar ~ gan tuairisc, no one knows his whereabouts. 3. ~ stoca, vamp of stocking. 4. Meas: Foot. ~ ar fad, a foot in length. ~ chearnach, chiúbach, square, cubic, foot.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Fiche troigh ar ~, twenty feet in height.
Bheith bliain d’aois, troigh ar airde, slat ar fad, tonna meáchain, punt an chloch, to be a year old, a foot high, a yard long, a ton weight, a pound a stone.
Troigh, cothromóid, chiúbach, cubic foot, equation.
~ troithe, ~ mhíle, five feet, five miles.
Chuir sé an meáchan leathchéad troigh, he put the shot fifty feet.
Ceithre troithe ~, fourteen feet.
~ troithe, mílte, de, measure it in feet, miles.
Ní fheacfainn troigh ar ais dó, I wouldn’t yield a step to him.
Sé troithe ~, six feet exactly, fully six feet.
Ghlan sé an lata, na sé troithe de léim ard, he cleared the lath, the high jump at six feet.
Troigh, míle, acra, go leith, a foot, a mile, an acre, and a half.
Tá sé ~ ar na sé troithe, he is over six feet.
Troigh, cloch, acra, bliain, scór, go leith, a foot, a stone, an acre, a year, a score, and a half.
Na mílte troigh ar airde, thousands of feet high.
Troigh ó chéile, a foot apart.
Tá fiche troigh de shnámh aici, she has a twenty-foot draught.
Tá an ~ ar an troigh, everything is set, there is no turning back.
Long ag ~t fiche troigh uisce, a ship drawing twenty feet of water.
Tá ceithre troithe de thimpeall aige, it has a circumference of four feet.
Trí troithe ~, three feet across.
Ní rachainn ~ na troighe leis, I wouldn’t stir a foot to go with him.
