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le Seán ó Tuathail
A ( aw ) ............................................. v áirne.
abhainn - river.
portion.
áer - v aoir.
aill - cliff.
than taibhreamh.
aiteann - horse.
blood-ties.
trouble).
Amhairghine).
amhrán - song.
ánruth v ánradh.
aor - v aoir.
ardrí - high-king.
ardtiarna - high lord, one of the ranking leaders, master
draíocht).
control, relate.
baint - v bain.
beo fada is bás in Éirinn - "Long life and may you die
in Ireland!"
biáidh - blessing.
bís - spiral.
Samhain, not part of the year proper, being the extra day.
bran - raven.
branán - raven.
brandubh - board game, apparently simpler than fidcheall
breitheamh - brehon.
brigh - v brí.
"i", briocht).
briocht - v bríocht.
brugh - v brú.
bruidhean - v bruíon.
bruigh - v brú.
buachloch - power-object.
búad - v bua.
caerthann - v caorthann.
éiric).
consumption, 7rl).
cath - battle.
cathais - vigil.
perception/conception.
céalmhaire - omen.
cearc - hen.
ceol - music.
misfortune, tragedy.
programme a computer.
practical experience.
filíochta (qv).
filíochta (qv).
filíochta (qv).
coisc - v cosc.
the world.
coll - Hazel, fiodh of the letter C (always pronounced as
"k"), associated with, among other things, poetry and the wilds;
relationships.
comhtharlú).
Connacht - Connacht.
technique.
cor - turn, whirlwind, spinning-in-place, reel, pledge,
exhausion, agreement.
corr - point, edge, hollow, pit, crane (bird), eel, odd (i.e.
cráin - sow.
trees are luis, iúr, and coll (qv); 2) pole, shaft, wooden
cré-umha - bronze.
protective ward.
ancient Ireland.
Cromm Dubh - v Cromm Croich.
crot - v cruit.
the basic three-wood body and that Uaithne (qv) is also an old word
cruitt - v cruitire.
cú - hound.
salmon.
cuaifeach - whirlwind.
(cf naoi).
cumang - v cumhacht.
cur - v cuir.
curadmhír - v laochmhír.
fertility.
concept.
3) sudden panic.
far more wise and powerful than mortals are likewise bound by
the basic laws of the universe; it is never used in the singular for
an individual).
déithe is dual dom, na - the gods who are rightfully mine (v dual).
threatening, 7rl.
Diarmaid's druids, but the great curse was upon the site itself,
dícheadal - incantation.
containing rudach).
fiodh, 7rl.).
cf aonarán.
possession to work.
dleacht - legal due, lawful right, duty (cf dyalgas).
dlínse - jurisdiction.
doilbh - v dolb.
fomhothuú, etc.
amazement).
dreoilín - wren.
druídheacht - v draíocht.
his ship).
duilliúr).
duilleog - leaf.
duilliúr - foliage.
dúshlán - challenge.
E ( ay ) ............................................. v eabhadh.
brí and which (dangerously) allows one to stand ON the wall at,
éigse v éicse.
Éire - v Ériu.
éraic - v éiric.
erbe - v airbe.
Ériu - Ireland.
fáistine - divination.
fáith - prophet.
fál - 1) hedge, fence, barrier (of protection, 7rl - v
airbe); 2) Ireland.
Thríbhís Mhór).
féineas - selfhood.
fia - deer.
utterance").
filideacht - v filíocht.
fírinne.
of Ireland.
fíor (qv).
flead - v fleá.
bua; 2) Latin.
foclóir - dictionary.
Fódla - Ireland.
(qv).
frithchosúlacht - paradox.
gáeth - v gaoth.
garrán - grove.
gealach - moon.
since many geasa required the person bound to perform, not avoid,
the required activity.
giorria - hare.
dress, preparation.
goirmín - woad.
grian - sun.
of data.
gruagach - "hairy-head", magical being in (esp. human)
I ( ee ) ............................................. v iúr.
iarlais - changling.
the worlds.
ilsaoltactaíocht - (practice of) multiplicity of realities.
imbas - v iombhas.
arrival in Ireland.
poets, 7rl).
síúlacht, túras).
lád - watercourse.
Laighean - Leinster.
and L. na hUidhre.
or in meditation).
léargas - insight, non- (or very light) trance vision,
psychic sight.
méarnáil).
leigheas - healing.
Lia Fáil - stone that sang when the true king stood on it
liathlus - mugwort.
bríocht).
ríastrad.
Lucetmail - v Lochrú.
luibhlia - herbalist.
mana - omen.
Sídhe.
Mí - v Mídhe.
Mídhe - Meath.
battled the combined forces of the arch-druid and all the court
molaim thú - "I praise you" given to trees, leser Sídhe, 7rl
moltaí - praises.
Mumhan - Munster.
Mumu - v Mumahn.
that a king (or any political leader) must always occupy the
part.
tine cnámh).
O ( oh ) ............................................. v omhna.
layman.
ór - gold.
piseog - witch (in the general sense, but in tradition and association
7rl).
pocmhothú - sudden non-premeditated athmhothú (qv).
a Norse borrowing/extension).
racht - paroxym.
ré - moon (-cycle).
Teamhair (note, named after the poets who proclaimed there, and
scorán to activate.
rí (-the) - king.
rig - v rí.
ríoghain - queen.
ríon - v ríoghain.
iomarbhá).
ilchiallú.
cheannaibh, qv).
rún - secret (this word has a long ancestry and would appear
sciath - shield.
seabhac - hawk.
seandálaíocht - archaeology.
seanfhocal - proverb.
elsewhere.
serglige - wasting sickness caused by magic.
sí - v Sídhe.
Sídhe.
slaitín - wand.
slógad - v slua.
requiring gabhlairdeall.
sonraí - details.
taibhse - ghost.
precocious child.
tairngreacht - prophecy.
caoilíth.
teine - v tine.
Earth, and Sky), whose binding (which is indivisble and may never
rise to drown you, the earth open to swallow you, the sky fall to
timpán - v tiompan.
visions).
toit - smoke.
tonn - wave.
torc - 1) neck ring open over throat (cf iodh); 2) wild boar.
tríbhís - triscele.
tríchos - triscele.
tríbhás), or
reasons to do something.
dán.
túis - incense.
síúlacht, iomas).
turas - pilgramage.
U ( oo ) ............................................. v úll.
uacht - v audacht.
five provinces.
Uladh - Ulster.