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Do chur a ghníomh ana-mhisneach sa chuid eile: agus bhíodar ag teacht saor ón luing ’na nduine is ’na nduine go dtí an chéad mháta.
His act gave great courage to the rest: and they were coming free from the ship as men and as men to the first mate.
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
Bhí an chéad mháta a bhí ar an luing anamhór leis an gcaptaen.
The first mate who was on the ship was very friendly with the captain.
Like the adjective céad(“first”) itself, this term always undergoes lenition after the definite article, both singular and plural, except in the dative singular where eclipsis may be found.