oiread

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɾʲəd̪ˠ]

oiread m or 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.

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).

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