“mar” on Scots Gaelic-Lombard dictionary

prep as, like + dat case + len of indef noun but acc case of def noun □ thuit e mar chloich he fell like a stone □ mar shaighead like an arrow □ ruith e mar a’ ghaoth he ran like the wind □ this also applies to nouns preceded by a poss adj □ mar mo bhean like my wife – but: mar mhnaoi like a woman / wife □ bha nithean mar leabhraichean, mhiosachain, chairtean agus chasaetean ri an reic there were things like books, calendars, cards and cassettes for sale – note how each word in the list is lenited □ ruagadh an t-arm dearg mar am moll ro na Gaidheil the redcoats were driven like [the] chaff before the Highlanders □ bi mar seem, be like □ … agus gu dearbh sin mar a bha … and indeed that’s how it was / how it turned out etc. □ … ach mar a thachair … but, as it happened / turned out □ sometimes translates as ‘what’: tha e duilich mar a thachair dha it’s sad what happened to him (lit. how it turned out for him) □ bhiodh a bhràthair a’ smaoineachadh gun robh cùisean gu math eadar-dhealaichte bho mar a bha iad his brother would think that things were quite different from what / how they were □ bha sinn toilichte leis mar a bha cùisean a’ dol we were pleased with how things were going