Denoting the agent: thomhaiseadh le Diarmid an torc, _the boar was measured by Diarmid_.
Denoting possession: is le Donull an leabhar, _the book is Donald's_; cha leis e, _it is not his_.
Denoting opinion or feeling: is fada leam an là gu h-oidhche, _I think the day long, or tedious, till night come_; is cruaidh leam do chor, _I think your case a hard one_; is dòcha leam, _I think it probable_; is doilich leam, _I am sorry_; is aithreach leis, _he repents_.
_Along_: leis an t-sruth _along the stream_; leis an leathad, _down the declivity_.
Leig leam, _let me alone_; leig leis, _let him alone_.
_About_: ag iadhadh mu a cheann, _winding about his head_; labhair e mu Iudas, _he spoke about Judas_; nuair smachduichear duine leat mu 'lochd, _when thou { 131} correctest a man for his sin_, Psal. xxxix. 11, metr.; sud am fàth mu'n goir a' chorr, _that is the reason of the heron's cry_. Seann dàna. Sud fàth mu 'n guidheann ort na naoimh, _for this reason will the saints make supplication to Thee_.
_From_: O bhaile gu baile, _from town to town_; o mhadainn gu feasgar, _from morning to evening_; o 'n là thainig mi dhachaidh, _from the day that I came home_; o 'n là, is often abridged into la; as, la thainig mi dhachaidh, _since I came home_.
_Since_, _because_: thugamaid uil' oirnn a' bhanais, o fhuair sinn cuireadh dhol ann, _let us all to the wedding, since we have been bidden to it_.
Denoting want in opposition to possession, denoted by _aig_: na tha uainn 's a b' fheairrd sinn againn, _what we want and should be the better for having_.
Implying desire: ciod tha uait? _what would you have?_ Tha claidheamh uam, _I want a sword_.
_Above_: Mar togam os m' uil' aoibhneas àrd cathair Ierusaleim, _if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy_, Psal. cxxxvii. 6, metr.; os mo cheann, _above me_, _over me_.
_To_: cosmhuil ri mac righ, _like to the son of a king_; chuir iad teine ris an tigh, _they set fire to the house_.
Ri là gaoithe, _on a day of wind_; ri fad mo ré 's mo là, _during all the days of my life_; ri lìnn Righ Uilliam, _in the reign of King William_.
Cuir ris, _ply your work_, _exert yourself_; cuirear na { 132} nithe so ribh, _these things shall be added unto you_, Matt. vi. 33. Tha an Spiorad ag cur ruinn na saorsa, _the Spirit applieth to us the redemption_, Assemb. Sh. Catech.