ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Cá h~, cén ~, é? What age is he?
Ní fhaca mé é le h~ duine, le h~ gadhair, I haven’t seen him for a lifetime.
Ó ~ go h~, from age to age.
An fichiú h~, the twentieth century.
Cá haois é? What age is he?
~tha le haois, le fuacht, shrunk with age, with cold.
~ faoi ualach, le haois, bent under a load, with age.
Cá haois duit? What age are you?
~ le haois, enfeebled from old age.