Irish

Noun

oiread m, f ‎(genitive singular oiread)

1. amount, quantity, size

   Tá a dhá oiread ionat.‎

   You are twice his size.

   Gheobhaimis a thrí oiread air.‎

   We would get three times as much for it.

   Tá a cheithre oiread agat liom.‎

   You have four times as much as me.

   Tá a oiread go leith agam leat.‎

   I have one and a half times as much as you.

   Tá a oiread eile sa phota eile.‎

   There is as much again in the other pot.

   Is fiú bhur n-oiread féin óir sibh.‎

   You (pl.) are worth her weight in gold.

   Ní cóir dá oiread féin d’fhear a dhéanamh sin.‎

   A man of his size shouldn’t do that.

   Níl oiread m’ordóige inti.‎

   She is not as big as my thumb.

   Tá tú righin do d’oiread.‎

   You’re tough for your size.

Derived terms

• a oiread ‎(“as much, so much”)
• ach oiread ‎(“either”)
• an oiread, an oiread seo ‎(“so much, so many”)
• oiread na fríde ‎(“the tiniest bit”)

Usage notes

Behaves as a masculine noun in most respects (takes the definite article an rather than na in the genitive, does not lenite an adjective in the nominative), but as a feminine noun in that it does not undergo t-prothesis after an in the nominative. Compare an oiread céanna ‎(“the same amount”) (with no t-prothesis of the noun and no lenition of the adjective) with the masculine an t-oireacht céanna ‎(“the same assembly”) (with t-prothesis of the noun and no lenition of the adjective) and the feminine an oíche chéanna (with no t-prothesis of the noun and lenition of the adjective).

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