tinneas, m. (gs. & npl. -nnis, gpl. ~). Soreness, sickness; pain, distress. 1. ~ boilg, ~ goile, belly-ache, stomach-ache. ~ caoldroma, lumbago. ~ cinn, headache. ~ cluaise, earache. ~ croí, heartache. ~ droma, backache. ~ fiacaile, toothache. ~ fuail, ~ uisce, gravel. ~ seilge, spleen. ~ súl, sore eyes; eye-disease. S.a. ribe11(b).2. ~ clainne, pangs of childbirth. Bean i d~ clainne, i d~ linbh, woman in labour. ~ lao, ~ searraigh, ~ uain, parturition (of cow, mare, sheep). ~ farraige, seasickness. An ~ beannaithe, an ~ mór, ~ Póil, ~ talún, epilepsy. ~ muc, swine-fever, purples. ~ an bháis, fatal illness. ~ bréige a ligean ort, to feign illness, to malinger. Tá ~ na circe air, he has the fidgets. 3. ~ a chur ar dhuine, to sicken s.o.; to distress s.o. Níl mé ina thinneas, I am not perturbed about it. Ní raibh pioc dá thinneas air, he was not in the least put out about it. Ní hé atá ag déanamh tinnis dom, that is not what troubles me. Tinnis an tsaoil, life’s worries. (Var:pl. ~acha, ~aí)