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Foclir Draochta - Dictionary of Druidism

http://www.summerlands.com/crossroads/focloirdruids/focloir.htm

2nd Edition

le Sen Tuathail

copyright 1993 John Kellnhauser / Cainteanna na Luise

Plurals follow nouns in ()s

A

A ( aw ) ............................................. v irne.abhainn - river.

bhar (bhair) - student, subject, potential quality, fair

portion.

ab - interjection following proper name, loosely "hail forever".

achar feadha's feadh achair - (untranslatable: "duration/area

of distance /duration and/is extent of extent" etc) - premise

that 1) "time" is a "field" like space, not a "flow"; 2) distance

and duration interact; 3) both time and space are "subjective".

dh - "good luck" as either good dn or as indicated by lth.

adhann - coltsfoot (v sponc).

dhmharaighe - lit. "lucky injury", paradoxical serendepity,

i.e. the wrong thing at the right time, something wherein an

error produces a result better than planned, 7rl.

er - v aoir.

aerach - gay (in both "happy" and "homosexual" senses).

aes dna - poets, harpers, artists as a social privileged class.
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ag tos - at (the) beginning.

Agallamh - 1) dialogue; 2) v Acallam na Seanrach, a seanchas.

agus araile (written "7rl") - et cetera.

aided - death tale, a major type of seanchas (v oidhe).

aigne - nind, basic dispositions, emotional outlook, basic

inclinations (cf aireachtail. ciall, cuihmne, dil, irim,

inchinn, intinn, meabhair, meanma, meon, moth, smaoineamh, toil).

ail anscuichthe - "immovable (large) stone", validating

testimony from a non-plant/animal/person.

ilgeis - poet's right of (esp. derogatory or egotistical)demand (which must be granted as the force of geis).

aill - cliff.

ailt - cliff bordered ravine.

aimhleas - harmful path in life.

aocht - hospitality as a duty.

airbhe - an encircling "hedge" which protects those inside

and may be crossed but with il-effect on whom does so.

aircheadal - set-piece poetry or chant.

aireachtail - perception, sense (both physical and 6th), cf aigne 7rl.

iren - being nocturnal, night vigil, vsiting at night.

airgead - 1) silver; 2) modern word for money.

airmert - 1) preparation, equipment; 2) effort; 3) prohibative

brocht (not as strong as geis.

irne - blackthorn, fiodh for letter A, associated with,

among other things, quarrel, vigil.

aisling (-) - dream/trance vision much stronger more lucid


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than taibhreamh.

aiteacht - sensation of thing or place being "not quite

right" but not being able to tell why.

aiteann - horse.

Aithirne - Ulster druid known for ilgeasa.

aithriocht - shape-shifting, actual not mealladh (v athdholb).

aitire - hostage surety.

Albu - 1) rsa: all of Britain; 2) modcern [Alba]: Scotland.

Almu - dn of the fianna in n. Co. Kildare (cf Dn Aillinne).

altramas - fosterage between generations more important tnanblood-ties.

amadn - fool (esp. one with briotais of getting others in

trouble).

amhailt - 1) threatening phantom; 2) fomoth, etc., of threat.

amhainseacht - paleo-shamanism, seizure trance.

Amhairghin Glingeal - first and greatest mortal poet-druid

who challenged the Tuatha D Danann and called forth Ireland

from behind the mists of invisibility; his name means: "Birth of

Song, of the Bright Knees [= Generations]"; variant spellings

include Aimhirgin, usually rendered in english as "Amergin" (v Duan

Amhairghine).

Amhairghin mac Eicet - Ulster poet-druid.

amhlaidh - thus, used as "go raibh amhlaaidh", "so be it",

but not as a wish for something to occur but that the

requirements have already been met and said conditions should

continue as they are now (as mallacht it means "may you be


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stuck with this forever").

amhra - wonder, marvel, nobility, charm.

amhrn - song.

am - 1) wasted, in vain; 2) astrray (as from Sdhe).

anil - 1) breath; 2) strength; 3) (esp. verbal) influence.

anam - soul (probably a loan-word, v bradn, br).

anamimirce - transmigration of soul.

anfa - tempest, storm (used of magic instead of the borrowed "stoirm").

nradh - 6th (from bottom up) rank poet.

nruth v nradh.aoir - brocht satire, usually mallacht.

aonarn - hermit, recluse (cf dthreabach).

aor - v aoir.

aosn - neach Sdhe of il-intent.

rach - 1) bond, security, linkage; 2) opening advantage,

favorable opportunity; 3) "offer", solicitation to act a certain

way to gain bua, v caoi.

ard - high (often prefixed).

ard-draoi - arch-druid (a social position).

ardartha - salute to only extremely high authority, fists to forehead.

ardfhile - high-poet, a social position.

ardr - high-king.

ardtiarna - high lord, one of the ranking leaders, master

adepts, etc., of the Tuatha D Danann or any neach

Sdhe of equivelent nature (never used for any mortal).

arracht (-a) - spectre, monster, 7rl (loose term, real or illusion).


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rsa - ancient, archaic.

rsachumadh - deliberate anacharicism or archaicization in seanchais.

asarla - occultist, ritual magician.

asarlaocht - occultism, hermetics, ritual magic (cf piseogacht).

ascalt - 1) lack of food; 2) lower level of bua than required

for a specific working.

astaidhbhreacht - "reading" (in the clairoyant sense of an object).

athair thaln - yarrow.

athdholb - shape-shifted form.

athgabhil - allowable reprisal.athioncholl - reincarnation (not a regular feature of

draocht).

athmhoth - (act of switching) alternative states of consciousness.

athshocr - alternate arrangement (during smhoill, etc.)

audacht - (text) of learned reportage and advice (modern

Irish "uacht" is "will, testament").

B

B ( bay ) ............................................ v beith.

badbh - 1) carrion-crow; 2) neach Sdhe of battle.

bagair - threathen, beckon toward, chase away, threaten.

bail - prosperity, validity.

bain - extract, release, agitate, win, evoke, gain, begin,

induce, remove, obtain, deprive, interfer with, stay, appease,

control, relate.


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baint - v bain.

baisleac - wisewoman, female folk-wizard, woman upthg.

bn - white, associated with emptiness, weakness (cf geal).

Banda - an alternate name for Ireland.

bndhraocht - "white druidism", i.e. fake druidism drained

dry of genuine elements, or diluted of difficulty to be popular.

bard (baird) -low class [non-druid] songster.

bs - death (considered part of dn).

Beag mac Deadh - druid of Diarmaid mac Cearbhaill (qv).

balaocht - oral tradition (in general).balaithris - oral tradition, oral account.

Bealtaine - quarter day beginning sunset 30th April, day of

arrival of both mortals and TDD in Ireland.

beannacht (-a) - 1) with ar (beannacht ort): blessing; 2)

with do (beannacht duit): greetings; (the word is, based on the

double-n, not a Latin loan, but from "beann", "antler").

Beann na dithe's n'aindhithe ort - "The

blessings of the gods and the non-gods upon you".

barla - 1) english language (cf sasanaigh); 2) jargon, cant.

beathnua - St John's wort.

beirbhine - vervain.

beith - birch, fiodh for the letter B, associated with, among

other things, beginning, cleansing.

beo - person's life, physical incarnation.

beo fada is bs in irinn - "Long life and may you die

in Ireland!"


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biidh - blessing.

bile (bil) - any large, isolated sacred tree.

bs - spiral.

bliin is l - "a year and a day", a full 364-day solar cycle,

Samhain, not part of the year proper, being the extra day.

b - cow, asssocaited with prosperity and female beauty.

bobcheist - trick question.

bochtg - neach Sdhe associated with sea.

bodhrn - 1) deaf person; 2) native Irish tambourine-like drum.

bolg grine - "sun bubble", magical growth on plantsconferring insight when eaten.

bolg is buinn - "bag and pipes" (pb uilleann, "Uillean

pipes" is a modern borrowing, as is the instrument, but this

term exists from pre-christian sourses, indicating an earlier form).

bonn (boinn) - sole (of foot), foothold, standing (in rank),

foundation, footprint, spoor, coin, token, metal.

bradn - 1) salmon (v eo fis); 2) life principle of individual.

bran - raven.

brann - raven.

brandubh - board game, apparently simpler than fidcheall

and/or involving lots.

brat (brait) - cloak, for a druid always without hood, multi-coloured.

breac - speckled, symbolizing magical power (either br or bua).

breachsholas - twilight, the time of most powerful br.

breachtraocht - (general term) magic (esp. folk-, herbal.

breactradh - (general term) magic, charms, 7rl.


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breitheamh - brehon.

breithinais - Brehon Laws.

br - inherent/intrensic personal power set by dn (lit.

essence, vigour, significance), cannot be won or gained, only

developed or allowed to atrope; cf bua.

briathar - verb, word.

brathar - word, adage.

briatharchath - egotistical laochas-like boast-speech before battle.

brigh - v br.

brocht (-a) - spell, largely or fully verbal (themodern form of the word is spelt, and pronounced, with a short

"i", briocht).

briocht - v brocht.

brionglid - dream (general term).

briotais - inherent talent (in a specific thing).

brosna (-) - withered branch ordead wood gathered by hand

(i.e. not requiring permission of the tree or ritual).

br - hostel, Sdhe-hill, esp. the latter (cf bruon).

Br na Bhinne - Newgrange.

bruane - fire-seed, embers from which other fires are lit.

brugh - v br.

bruidhean - v bruon.

bruigh - v br.

bruon - hostel, Sdhe-hill, esp. the former (cf br).

brthaoscadh - to drain pressure, loosen tightenness, psychically.

bua - 1) gained or attained personal power, esp. in a given


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area (cf br); 2) [usually as plural buatha:] actions which win

or maintain bua v tairbhe); (lit. victory, merit, talent).

buachaitheamh - to "flare power", neutral samhlchaitheamh.

buachloch - power-object.

bad - v bua.

buannaocht - 1) boldness, presumption; 2) having or using briotais.

buas - 1) spring (water); 2) wealth (specifically one's

"store" of bua, but also of gold, property, etc).

bu - yellow, associated with thanksgiving and praise.

bunchur - "let this happen" part of brocht.

C

C ( kay ) ............................................ v coll.

caerthann - v caorthann.

cailleach - 1) hag (esp. as aithriocht of neach Sdhe); 2)

precocious young girl.

cin - offical law, tax to rulers (as opposed to tradition or

iric).

caint (-eanna) - speech, avility to talk, discourse.

cinte - (esp. unjust) satirist.

caitheamh - cast(ing) fiodhrdhm coins, etc. (lit. wear, use,

consumption, 7rl).

cana - 1) cub, 2) 4th (from bottom up) rank poet.

caoi - 1) way, path, manner; 2) opportunity; 3) proper

condition; 4) thing solicited by rach.


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caoilth - omen that what has been said or done is correct

(cf lth, il, taispeadh).

caoimneadh - keen, lament for dead.

caor (-a) - berry, associated with health.

caorthann - common name for luis.

caorthann curraigh - valerian.

cas - turn, wind, sing, return, reproach, attempt, meet.

cath - battle.

cathais - vigil.

Cathbhadh - ard-draoi of Ulster, responsible for the curse onEmhain Macha, bound whern he was lied to by the king.

cadfa (-) - bodily sense (or one of normal 5), normal

perception/conception.

calmhaire - omen.

cearc - hen.

ceard - craft, skill, art.

ceart tar croch (also cert tar crch) - right of poets to

cross all political borders with safety.

ceas - 1) surfeit, excess; 2) woe, grief, debility, esp.

long-lasting or repetititve, esp. as result of mallacht.

cile - companion, spouse.

cim - 1) step, rank; 2) pass (in mountains), ravine.

ceo - 1) fog, mist; 2) anything, nothing.

ceobhrn - haze, light mist.

ceol - music.

Cesair - v Lebor Gabla.


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ciall - sense. sanity, normal or habitual state of mind,

faculty of logic, meaning; (cf aigne 7rl).

ciapg - (magically induced) confusion or delusion.

cinnbheart - head-dress, esp. feathered.

cinniint - 1) fate (general term, cf dn); 2)

misfortune, tragedy.

cinnte - certainly, surely.

cion - 1) share, amount; 2) love, esteem; 3) offence, crime, blame.

Cithruad - ard-draoi roga of king Cormac who lost to

Mogh Roith (qv).cita (-) - 1) quip; 2) flourish; 3) trick; 4) "extra

decoration", stylistic addition in brocht with no bua itself

but used to help make it unique.

claenmhl - family totem.

nascmhl - animal to which a person's life is linked.

beirmhl - personal totem involving taking of name and geis

against killing (additional) memebers of species.

Claomh Solais - Sword of Light.

clirseach - large (modern) harp, not a druid harp.

clann - children, family, race, followers.

clr - 1) tablulation, listing (of kings, attributes,

7rl); 2) to beat, flatten, 7rl; 3) slang: fuck; 4) modern: to

programme a computer.

cl - left (hand).

cleachtadh (-a) - 1) lesson; practice; 2) habitual wont; 3)

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cleas - feat of prowess, "trick" (but not with the idea of

skill, not cheating).

cleathains (pl.) - paraphernalia, odds and ends, personal

belongings, (esp. minor) props and aids to magic.

cl - 5th (from bottom up) rank poet.

cliatha fis - "wattles of knowledge", wicker (esp. rowan)

lattice sleeping-bag used for divination.

cloch - stone (general term).

cloch iompaithe - turning stone. used esp. for mallacht.

clog - 1) bell; 2) clock; 3) skin-blister.cls - henge, enclosure.

cl - honour, fame (informal, cf eineach).

clmh - feathers, down, body-hair, fur.

cnib - hemp, cannabis.

cn (-nna) - nut, associated with wisdom.

cnoc (cnoic) - hill.

cndna - 1) purring cat; 2) wheedler, pleasant

hoaxer; 3) wannabe (person who likes druidism superficially but

wants easy lessons).

cochall - cowl, cloak with hood, a non-druid cloak.

coill - woods, forest.

Coire Dagdae - Ever-full cauldron of plenty.

coire irme - cauldron of warming, loweest of 3 coir

filochta (qv).

coire fhs - cauldron of knowledge, highest of 3 coir

filochta (qv).


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coire goir - cauldron of motion, middle of 3 coir

filochta (qv).

coir filochta (pl) - 3 "cauldrons of poetry" within the

poet/person, similar but not identical to kundalini chakras;

each has 3 attitudes, giving 9 situational elements (qv naoi) and

7 states of the poet (qv seacht).

ciri - arranging (esp. the details), used of tuning a harp

or "fiddling" with a brocht with or without somhoill.

coisc - v cosc.

coitiantacht - 1) [without qualifying adjective:] theconsensus commonality view of the world; 2) [with adjective]

(esp, agreed upon or experienced in common) way of life and view of

the world.

coll - Hazel, fiodh of the letter C (always pronounced as

"k"), associated with, among other things, poetry and the wilds;

explicited stated as tree most favoured by Tuatha D Danann.

Colmchille - druid-trained greatest native Irish christian saint.

comhaltas - joint fosterage (modern word has many meanings).

comhartha - symbol, signal, gesture, token, sign, symptom.

comhartha beann - sign of horns made with hand as protective gesture.

comhfhearann - common ownership of land.

cmhla (esp. cmhla breac) - gate (esp. to Otherworld).

comhnasc - joint linkage, binding two or more things equally

together, with or without srln.

comhtharl - coincidence, esp. simultaneous (cf comhtheangmhas).

comhtheaghmas (rud) - conjuncture of things, entities in


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relationships.

comhtheagmhas - coincidence, serial, across time/space (cf

comhtharl).

comradh - assembly, celebration, accompaniment.

cngar - 1) proximity, vicinity; 2) convenient equipment,

means/tools ready to hand (cf garmheas).

Conmaince Rin - mountain in Connacht, arrival site of Tuatha

D Danann, identity uncertain, possibly Maol Ridh.

Connacht - Connacht.

contirt - 1) doubt, danger; 2) place or interval of time(e.g. Samhain) of possible, not fated, danger; 3) a dangerous

technique.

cor - turn, whirlwind, spinning-in-place, reel, pledge,

exhausion, agreement.

corr - point, edge, hollow, pit, crane (bird), eel, odd (i.e.

not even), curve.

corrbolg - "crane bag", magical treasure bag.

corrguineacht - "crane magic", brocht, esp. mallacht, on one

foot, one eye closed, one hand in belt.

cosc - defence, protection, prevention, restrain.

crin - sow.

crainnchaint - communicating with live trees.

crann (crainn) - 1) tree ( v bile); the three most important

trees are luis, ir, and coll (qv); 2) pole, shaft, wooden

frame, penis, full growth, best part, misfortune, attitude,

important person, fate, tune, offer, 7rl.


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crannchur - 1) rsa: casting of lots, not limited to

fiodhrdh; 2) modern: lottery, sweepstake.

cranng - artifical island dwelling.

cr-umha - bronze.

creadair - relic, power object.

creideamh - (esp. non-druid) belief, faith.

crios (-anna) - 1) (Irish woven) belt; 2) zone around a

person, thing, place, under its influence; 3) encircling

protective ward.

Cromm Croich - god of non-druid pagan religious cult inancient Ireland.

Cromm Dubh - v Cromm Croich.

crot - v cruit.

Crachn A - pagan socio-political capital of Connacht.

Cruachn Aigle - former pagan name of Cruach Pdraig.

cruit - the smaller, druidily proper, form of harp (whether

the original druid cruit was harp- or lyre-like is disputed, but

the basic three-wood body and that Uaithne (qv) is also an old word

for "pillar" would argue for a harp-like instrument.

cruitire - harper, i.e. a music-wizard, druid.

cruitt - v cruitire.

cruth - to create and prove true, cf for.

c - hound.

C Ro (C Ri) - druid-king of Munster

(only king of a province to be also a druid) whose totem was a

salmon.


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cuaifeach - whirlwind.

cuairt coimhg - circle of safe-keepings.

cig - five, number of general total, fullness, or completion

(cf naoi).

cige - lit. "fifth", province.

cuileann - common name of tinne.

cuir - bind, sow, bury, set, put, seek, consider, send,

engage, take, give, provide, deprive, 7rl.

cumang - v cumhacht.

cumha - nostalgia, home-sickness, esp. for ideal, what onenever knew one had until after one lost it.

cumhacht - power, authority, influence, 7rl.

cur - v cuir.

curadmhr - v laochmhr.

D

D ( day ) ............................................ v dair.

dimh - kindered affection, affinity.

dair - "robur"-Oak (only), fiodh for the letter D, associated

with, among other things, hospitality, inheritance, habitation,

fertility.

dalta (-) - 1) foster-child; 2) student; 3) ex-student; 4) pet.

dmh - retinue (esp. of poets, druids, brehons, 7rl).

damh - stag (the modern word also means "ox").

damhna - 1) substance, material; 2) cause of; 3) promising novice.


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dn - poetry, gift-talent-vocation, fate-destiny ("a man

can't drown whose dn's to be hanged", 7rl) as a unitary

concept.

dsacht - 1) fit of raging madness; 2) possession by spirit;

3) sudden panic.

dthabha - monkshood, wolfbane.

dealg - 1) thorn; 2) brooch.

dearg - red, associated with warriors and kingship.

deas - southward, right (hand), near-by.

deasghnth (-a) - lit. "right-hand custom", ritual.deiln - sing-song chant.

deiseal - clockwise, to open, harvest, welcome, release,

spread, invoke outward (cf tuathal).

dithe - "gods" (actually a superior elder race, which while

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).

dithe is dual dom, na - the gods who are rightfully mine (v dual).

deoch dearmaid - drink of forgetfulness.

deochnair[eacht - divination by dregs or swirling patterns in liquids.

diach - unpleasant aspect of dn, "punishment" for violating geis.

diamhair - thing or place (not person) with magical

qualities, esp. difficult to grasp, hidden, potentially

threatening, 7rl.

Diarmaid mac Cearbhaill - 6th century king who attempted to

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curse of desolation upon the site (Pdraig curse on only

the "druidry" of Teamhair was apparently over-thrown by

Diarmaid's druids, but the great curse was upon the site itself,

bound by Ruadn leading a christian-hermetic conclave of

13 saints (not mere priests).

dbearg - 1) outlawry, state of renouncing dominant society's

values, used loosely for roving bands of reveallers; 2) slang:

(irresponsible) sexual promiscuity.

dbirt - excorism.

dchaell - best endeavour, one's utmost best, neglect (ironic).dcheadal - incantation.

dcheadal di cheannaibh - mantra-like incantation using

munda-like repeditive motion, which is unusual in allowably

containing rudach).

dchealtair - magical disquise, esp. concealnent.

dleas (dlis) - special personal attributes (of person,

fiodh, 7rl.).

dlmain drong - lit. "restraint of crowds"; conformity to

common social mind-set.

dinnsheanchas (-ais) - seanchas of place.

donghabhil - "thatch-yoke", tag at end of

brocht asking it please the gods.

dth - 1) loss, destrcution, derivation, lack, requirement;

2) missing element of brocht.

dthreabh - wilderness, hermitage, isolated place of safety

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dthreabhach - hermit who lives, or wanders in, wilderness;

cf aonarn.

dlaoi fulla - lit. "whisp of delusion", originally a twisted

whisp of grass or twig magically enpowered and thrown at a

person to induce madness, but generally any "bad luck" charm

targetted at a specific individual which must be in their

possession to work.

dleacht - legal due, lawful right, duty (cf dyalgas).

dl (-the) - binding principle, (cosmic) law.

dlnse - jurisdiction.dluma dirche - nuclei of darkness.

dls - 1) compactness; 2) fullness, abundance.

dlth - 1) warp; 2) nearness; 3) intensity; 4) inner essential.

Do cheann im chrios - "Your head in my belt", fach.

doilbh - v dolb.

doilire - indistinct image, obscure affair, imprecise

fomhothu, etc.

doilfeacht - stage "magic", slight-of-hand.

doineann - wild cold weather.

doire - (esp. oak but also other type of) grove.

dolb - bit of (usually, not always, transforming) magic,

often but not always mealladh (may be actual shape-shift).

Domhan-so, an - 1) the mundane common world; 2) the daily

born-to world (as opposed to an Saol Eile and Tr na Marbh).

dord - 1) hum, buzz, murmur; 2) (esp. deep bass) chant.

dos - 3rd (from bottom up) rank poet.


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draighean - common name of irne.

draocht - druidism (modern word used loosely for magic).

draodir - fake druid.

draoi (draoithe) - druid.

draoi (draoithe) allta - "wild" druid, fordhraoi"

(true-druid), druid not assocaited with court (the adjective

refers to wilderness and not "crazy, violent" and connotates

amazement).

draoi (draoithe) roga - court druids, toadies, (pun on

"royalist" and "most spasmodic").dracht (-a) - 1) portion, part; 2) draft composition; 3)

verse to entertain or at social functions (i.e. not filocht as

brocht), or a scal that is not a seanchas.

dreanaireacht - divination by the flight of birds.

dreoiln - wren.

drinnrosc - 1) a request, boon (not neccessarily by a

poet/druid, cf ilgeis); 2) an incitement to quarrel.

dru - older spelling of, but prunounced identitically to draoi.

dride - baffoonery (v drth).

drudheacht - v draocht.

drth - jester, baffoon.

duais - 1) gift, bounty, reward; 2) gloom, distress, sorrow.

dual - 1) spiral, wisp, lock (of hair, 7rl), twist,

interlace; 2) native, natural, proper.

dualaocht - knotwork (in art, 7rl).

dualgas - inherent rights, duty, obligation, reward as a


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single idea (cf dleacht).

duan - song, poem.

Duan Amhairghine - Amhairghin's (qv) challenge to the Tuatha

D Danann by proclamation of superior poet-hood, the first

mortal poem actually on the soil of Ireland (i.e. Amhairghin's

Summoning of Ireland from beyond the magic mists was proclaimed from

his ship).

dchas - heretitary claim, ancestorial estate.

dil - desire, will, expectation (cf aigne 7rl).

duille - leaf, foliage, eye-lid, glory, wealth (v duilleog,duillir).

duilleog - leaf.

duillir - foliage.

dlra - nature (the elenents, 7rl).

dumha - (esp. samll burial) mound.

dn - fort, esp. of stone.

Dn Aillinne - capital of pagan Leinster in s.e. Co. Kildare

(cf Almu); note: not the "Hill of Allen" in english; an

alternative site is Dinn Rg in Co.Carlow.

dnchur (-a) - a closing of the entrance to a power site.

dshln - challenge.

E

E ( ay ) ............................................. v eabhadh.

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among other things, indecision, change.

each - horse, stead.

eachtra - adventure, saga, unexpected event, wonderful surprise.

eagna - wisdom, understanding (cf eolas).

eala - swan.

alang - flaw, weak spot, debilitating trait (cf fabht, locht).

aldach - absconder from justice, used loosely for someone

attempting to escape his/her dn (which is impossible).

an (in) - bird.

eangaill - cliff notch, a small narrow ledge beneath the lipof a high (usually sea-) cliff which is thw point of hightest

br and which (dangerously) allows one to stand ON the wall at,

not AT the top of the cliff itself.

araid - magical interferance or hinderance.

eas - 1) waterfall; 2) weasel.

easin - (unlawful) refusal of hospitality.

asca - 1) moon; 2) fluent, nimble, free, swift.

easca - quicksand, used generally for any area of potential danger.

eascaine - curse (general not neccessaroly brocht).

icse - poetic "nuts and bolts" knowledge (cf iomas).

ifeacht - depersonalized power (general theoretical abstract).

igse v icse.

igsn - 1) poetry student; 2) fake file.

eineach - honour (as a formal rank, cf cl).

eineaclann - honour price paid for offence.

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fistine - divination.

fith - prophet.

fl - 1) hedge, fence, barrier (of protection, 7rl - v

airbe); 2) Ireland.

farc (-a) - ward to restrain, including to bar entrance.

Farraige, talamh, is spir. - Sea, earth, and sky (variants

include "muir" for "farraige" and "neamh" for "spir", v

Thrbhs Mhr).

fsach - 1) maxim, precedent; 2) wilderness.

fthlia - herbal doctor.fe - common name of pigh.

fealmas (-a) - slight-of-hand, placebo.

fearb - blemish caused by aoir.

fearn - alder, fiodh for the letter F, associated with, among

other things, shields, hearth, luxury.

fearng - common name for fearn.

fearr fear a chineadh - "a man is better than his birth",

maxim that anyone may rise as his skill allows.

marsmeach (-anna) - "finger-flick" used as warding.

feart - 1) miracle, wonderous event; 2) (esp passage) tomb.

fath fadha - magical mists of invisibility.

feathal - 1) emblem, distinquishing feature; 2) mask.

fige - roof-tree, lintel (touched during blessing on all

within when entering a dwelling).

feilmhleas - clairoyant charm (general term).

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feis - 1) festival; 2) sexual intercourse.

feoras - common name of meol.

fia - deer.

fiach dubh - raven, lit. "dark hunting".

fiadhrdh - (a pun on/for fiodhrdh meaning "esteemed

utterance").

fianna (plural) - band of warrior allowable-outlaws sworn to

protect society but independent of it.

Fiannaocht - seanchais of Fionn, Oisn, and the Fianna.

fidcheall - lit. "wooden sense", 1) rsa: a non-chessnon-lots board game; 2) modern: chess.

file (fil) - poet. i.e. word-wizard, druid.

filideacht - v filocht.

filocht - poetry, i.e. verbal magic.

fine - (often greatly) extended family group.

fiodh (-a) - a single element of the fiodhrdh.

fiodhlann (-a) - a fiodh-piece used in casting.

fiodhrdh - lit. "wooden utterance", the druidic system of

divination by means of tree-letter-names.

Fionn iceas - druid who taught Fionn mac Cumhaill.

Fionn mac Cumhaill (there are variant spellings) - leader of

fianna with some druid training.

fiontar - adventure, risk, jeopardy, enterprise.

for - 1) figure, shape, image, symbol; 2) truth, pledge; cf

frinne.

forainm (-ainmneacha or rsa: -anmann) - "true name",


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binding name.

Forcheann - "True-Head", Malen Head, the norther-nmost point

of Ireland.

fordhraoi - v draoi allta.

for - to symbolize and verify, cf cruth.

fiosaocht - parapsychics (modern tern).

fiothnais - feat of harmful magic.

Fir Bolg - earlier sibling race of Tuatha D Danann (qv).

fir fer - combat code requiring, among other things, due

notice and equalisation of weapons.frinne - truth(fulness), more abstract or impersonal than

for (qv).

fiurt - feat of magic, esp. showy or beneficial.

flaith - 1) sovereignty; 2) prince.

fle - feast (cf feis).

flead - v fle.

fleasc - wand (esp. of coll).

focail bna - 1) "white words", words empty of truth and/or

bua; 2) Latin.

focal (focail) - word, pledge.

fochlac - 1) sapling; 2) 1st (lowest) rank poet.

foclir - dictionary.

Fdla - Ireland.

fgairt (-gartha) - 1) proclamation; 2) ward to compel, esp expell.

fogla dlsi - allowable plunder.

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place where directions are false, deliberate pit-fall, intentional

misinformation (may be actual physical place - cf

frithbhuachn, or more general).

foirteagal - binding by names or words of power.

foladh (fola) - essence, meaning, wealth, benefit, "claim to fame".

Fomoir - foreign enemies of Tuatha D Danann.

forchoimad - ward (esp. to preserve, maintain, etc.)

formhoth - lit."over-sensation"; extension of (esp. bodily)

perception beyond limits of body-skin, with/without iarrairdeall

(qv).fortach - oath or brocht that overrides or supersedes another.

foscal - 1) minor seanchas, or aside-seanchas within longer

one; 2) by extention of above: minor matter or event.

frithbheart - imcompatable element, contradiction.

frithbhuachn - a place or thing which drains bua or assaults

br, may or may not be individually specific (cf dlaoi fulla).

frithchoslacht - paradox.

fuath - 1) phantom; 2) hatred; 3) shape, form; 4) nightshade.

fuinseog - common name of nion.

G

G ( gay ) ............................................ v giis.

g - need, requirement;cf gu.

gabhlairdeall - "forked attention", division of

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gad - marker attached to object as evidence of claim.

gaeilge - the Irish language thecorrect english is "Irish";

while "Gaelic" includes Scots and Manx).

gaeilgeoireacht - (act or study of) speaking Irish.

geth - v gaoth.

gall (gaill) - person of foreign affinity.

galln - standing stone.

gaol (-ta) - person of kindred affinity.

gaoth - 1) wind; 2) estuary; 3) wise.

garmheas - convenient judgement, approximate opinion,pragmatic (but not exact) estimation, temperary "make-do"

technique (cf cngar).

garrn - grove.

gu - 1) injustice; 2) falsehood.

geal - bright, pure.

gealach - moon.

geantra - harp strain to (magically) induce laughter.

geasn - mini-geas, esp. self-imposed, to perform only once.

geilt (-e) - madman living in wilds, shunning others, with

shaman-like magical powers (cf dthreabhach).

geis (geasa) - magically bound injuncture or duty, individual

and contextual, having force of dn, explicitedly not a taboo

since many geasa required the person bound to perform, not avoid,

the required activity.

giorria - hare.

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other things, social-responsibity, valour.

glm dceann - short exhibitionistic (magical) satire.

glas - arrangement, means, facilities, instrument, tool,

dress, preparation.

gnch - mundane, common.

gnth - customary thing or action.

go gcumhda is dtreora na dithe th -

"May the gods guard and guide you".

goirmn - woad.

goltra - harp strain to (magically) induce weeping.gorm - blue, associated with protection and magic.

Greallach Dallaid - Mire of Blindness, hidden sanctuary.

grasn - 1) web, network; 2) tangle, complicatiom; 3) (esp.

single) knotwork or spiral motif.

grian - sun.

grianchloch - "sun-stone" (quartz).

grinnaitint - lit."discerning recognition": 1) recognition of

thing's or event's truth nature; 2) directed perception to

(attempt to) obtain the first.

grinnthoil - lit. "lucid intent"; directed consciousness to

influence event, thing, or person, with or without communication

of data.

gruagach - "hairy-head", magical being in (esp. human)

disquise, used sarcastically of would-be wizard.

gruaim - despond, dejection, self-pity.

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H

H ( haych) ............................................ v uath.

I

I ( ee ) ............................................. v ir.

iallach (-aigh) - brocht of restraint or compulsion.iarlais - changling.

iarrairdeall - lit. "solicitous attention"; blank-mind receptiveness.

idircheo - area of overlapping liminality between an

Domhan-so and an Saol Eile. (lit. between-mist).

idirchian - far distant time or place (lit. between-length).

idirchrios - transitional area (lit. between-belt).

ilchiall - pun, doubled entrendre, i.e. in brocht a

"sea-horse" is valid as a "horse".

ildathach - multicoloured, breac.

iloireadas - non-concurrentness of geography and time between

the worlds.

ilsaoltactaocht - (practice of) multiplicity of realities.

imbas - v iombhas.

Imbolg - high day that begins sunset 31st January.

immram - wonder voyage (late borrowing).

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L

L ( ehl ) ............................................ v luis.

ld - watercourse.

Laighean - Leinster.

laochas - valour, pride, heroism, boastfulness, bravado.

lthair - 1) site, loction; 2) presence (of person, 7rl),

present place and/or time.

lthar - strength, vigour.

leabhar (-air) - 1) book (a Latin loan-word); 2) a collection

of seanchais, among the most important of which include: LeabharBu Leacin, L. Laighneach, L. Leasca Mhir,

and L. na hUidhre.

leac - (esp. door, flat or horizontal) stone.

leacht - 1) grave; 2) cairn.

leannn - 1) lover (human, but specific term for of Sdhe);

2) chronic affliction, failing (character weakness).

leapaidh lnlaidh - lit. "harbourage of complete

attentions"; (esp. secure or powerful) mind-set (to do brocht

or in meditation).

largas - insight, non- (or very light) trance vision,

psychic sight.

laspin - dancing coloured lights (mealladh, cf

marnil).

leathdhraocht - "half-a-druidism" with some genuine, but

many foreign elements.

Lebor Gabla, an - "The Book of Invasions", seanchas (not an


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actual "leabhar" of the invasions of Ireland; the first three

invasions (i.e. Cesair, Partholn, Nemed) of which are

interpolations added by later christian scribes to bring it in

line with church and Classical references.

leid - hint, clue, pointer.

leigheas - healing.

lim thar - v ling thar.

line - long shirt, tunic, vest.

lirmheas (eannna) - review (of books), critical complete assement.

lia - 1) standing stone; 2) physician.Lia Fil - stone that sang when the true king stood on it

(definitely not the one so-called now).

liag - (esp. ornamented standing) stone.

liathlus - mugwort.

ling thar tine cnmh - leap over the bonfire, to be "cooked",

i.e. reaffirm social membership (cf nghe).

lonadh - 1) flood tide; 2) waxing moon.

lionn iomhais - drink granting magical insight.

lios - 1) enclosed space); 2) cnoc Sdhe; 3) halo around moon.

lth (lotha) - good omen indicating the day upon which it

occurs is beneficial (cf caoilth).

loachmhr - hero's portion at a feast.

Lochcr and Lucetmael - draoithe roga Teamhrach at the

coming of Pdraig, the first Pdraig, the latter

lost a magical battle to him by being ineptly inable to perform

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locht - flaw, limiting defect, slip-up (cf alang, fabht).

lodairne - badly spun yarn, scraggy weaving (poorly composed

brocht).

Lachrn (also Lachair) - pagan capital of

Munster, exact location unknown, somewhere in Co. Kerry or

s.w. Co. Limertick.

lan lith - halo-like radiance around head of person in

rastrad.

Lucetmail - v Lochr.

Lugbrann - 6th century (i.e. christian times) druid.Lughnasa - quarter day beginning sunset 31 July.

luibh (-eanna) - herb.

luibhlia - herbalist.

luis - the magical name of Rowan, the fiodh for letter L,

associated with, among other things, protection, investiture,

and rejuvination; most important tree of (human) druids; (the

American mountain-ash does not qualify as a true Rowan, which

must have a hairy bud-head).

lus (-anna) - herb.

lusca - man-made cave, crypt.

M

M ( ehm ) ............................................ v meol.

mac fuirmhidh - 2nd (from bottom up) rank poet.

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machnamh - meditation, contemplation.

mael - term for possible druid tonsure, contended by some to

be shorn ear to ear with tuft in front.

Mag Sleacht - the centre of the Cromm Croich (qv) cult.

Maigh Tuireadh - 1) First Battle of, Co. Galway between

Tuatha D Danann and Firbolg; 2) Second Battle of, Co. Sligo

between TTD and Fomoire; (Tuatha D Danann victorious in both).

mla cruite - harp-bag, for a master harper (only), of 3

lawyers: otter-skin, white-speckled kid-goat-skin, (around only

the strings:) white linen.mla ithigh - "bag of false witness", bag from which

lots are drawn.

mallacht (-a) - curse.

mana - omen.

marana - contemplation (esp. verbal).

Marbn - a swineherd who rose to ardfhile of Ireland (qv fearr fear).

Marcaigh Mra Gala - "Great Bright Riders", Slua Sdhe.

me - 1) mead; 2) balance-scales, weight, measure; 3)

fishing-ground; (to avoid confusion, v miodh).

meabhair - intellect(ual consciousness), rational sense,

memory, conscious awareness of ideas (cf aigne 7rl).

mealladh (mealta) - glamour, magically-induced illusion.

meanma - thought, attention, orientation of thought, morale (cf aigne).

marnil - phosphorescent light of (usually lesser)

Sdhe.

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mirn pca - foxglove (one of many names).

meol - spindle, fiodh for the letter M, associated with,

among other things, industry, ostentation.

meon - temperment, character, whims and fancies (cf aigne 7rl).

M - v Mdhe.

Mdhe - Meath.

Ml - first human inhabitants of Ireland (usually fir Mhle).

millteoracht - magical attack.

miodh - mead (older form, v me).

seinm - playing (music), proclamation.mionaire - lit. fine(small) attention; perception inwhich

data are distinct, events staccato, time contracted (cf nascaire).

mionn (-a) - 1) regalia; 2) oath; 3) relic.

mionnfhinne - finger-ring as "badge of office", a king's

worn on the right thumb; a druid's on either middle-finger.

Mogh Ruith - "wild" one-eyed poet-druid (v draoi allta),

greatest druid after Amhairghin (qv), who with a few apprentices

battled the combined forces of the arch-druid and all the court

druids of Ireland and their Sdhe allies, and won.

mideacht - votive offering.

molaim th - "I praise you" given to trees, leser Sdhe, 7rl

(i.e. not generally to average humans).

molta - praises.

mrchis - false self-importance.

moth - sentience, sensory awareness, self-awareness,

consciousness (cf aigne 7rl).


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moth amhra mad meabhraithe - very roughly , "a

feeling for marvels is an expansion of awareness".

muir - v farraige 7rl.

Mumhan - Munster.

Mumu - v Mumahn.

N

N ( ehn ) ............................................ v nion.

namhaid (naimhde) - enemynaofa - sacred (adj.).

naoi - nine, number of gestalten, inherent completion and return.

naomh - lit. "ninefold-one", sacred (person or thing).

naomhaidhe - ninefold of days, esp. the period afterwhich

danger has passed.

naonr - a ninefold of persons.

Nao Tonn, an - The Ninth Wave (of Eternal Return).

nasc - binding (one thing to another), link.

nascaire - lit. "link-attention"; state of perception inwhich

data are patterned, events flow, time expands (cf mionaire).

nath (-a) - cant-word, (as plural) skill in adages.

nathair (nathracha) - snake.

neach - being, person, irregardless of sex, used as "neach Sdhe".

naladireacht - 1) divination by clouds; 2) furtively spying.

nallta fola - "Clouds of Blood", invocation of slaughter.

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neamhshaolta - "otherworldly", magically intrusive into the

mundane, used only as adjective/adverb, generally with or

without explicitly intending an Saol Eile.

neart - power, strength, both physically and magically.

Neart inr lmha, frinne ar r dteanga,

glaine inr gcro. - "strength in our arms, truth

on our tongue, clarity in our heart", definition of fianna honour

(several minor variants exist).

Nide - youth who contested in iomarbh to claim the

supremacy of poet-druids of Ulster (qv Immacallam).neidn - "little nest", a power-spot of rest or general safety.

neimheadh - 1) outdoor sanctuary; 2) more loosely, any

person, thing inviolable as sacred.

Nemed - v Lebor Gabla.

n hanasa - "Not difficult", a standard beginning to

answering a question requiring expert knowledge.

n heisce gan rga gasacht bis - maxim

that a king (or any political leader) must always occupy the

position of greatest danger in any battle inwhich his people take

part.

nghe - washing, ritually done already regalia'd, not as

cleansing, but as "crossing" into ritual space (cf ling thar

tine cnmh).

nion - ash-tree, fiodh for the letter N, associated with,

among other things, battle, asceticism, prudence.

nuil - (generally acceptable) innovation.


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O

O ( oh ) ............................................. v omhna.

caire (-) - lowest grade of freeman without major skills,

layman.

enach - (esp. quarter year) assembly.

ogham - a Latin based rune-like alphabet of foreign origin.

Oche Samhna - Samhain (qv) Night.

oidhe - doom, violent death (of an individual).Oisn - poet, last of fianna.

ollamh - master, 7th rank (top) poet.

omhna - sessile-Oak (only), fiodh for the letter O,

associated with, among other things, law, duty, honesty.

r - gold.

ortha (-) - charm, physical not verbal, or clich verbal.

orthrus (usual form of complete folog n-orthrusa) -

sick-maintenance, right of everyone to medical care (the longer

term refers more specifically to long-term care).

P

P ( pay ) ............................................ v pigh.

Pdraig - Welsh evangelist.

pigh - beech, fiodh for letter P, associated with, among

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Ralta na bhFile - "Star of the Poets", the throne-room of

Teamhair (note, named after the poets who proclaimed there, and

not for the king).

ramhfhuireach - brocht set beforehand which awaits

scorn to activate.

r (-the) - king.

rastrad - physical and mental distortion-transformation (not

shape-shifting) of esp. warrior similar to Norse berserkir.

rig - v r.

roghain - queen.ron - v roghain.

re - duel, single combat (usually used for armed combat, cf

iomarbh).

rfhis - lit. "excessive/most knowledge" does not apply to

omniscience, but to "as much as you'd want or need", almost

always applied to Tuatha D Danann and not humans.

rosc (-anna) 1) eye; 2) a druid rhetoric, i.e. magical

incantation; not a set formula but an each use unique (or at

least slightly varied) extemporaneous utterance esp. incorporating

ilchiall.

rudach - monotomy in a brocht or filocht (generally

unacceptable in brocht but allowable in dcheatal di

cheannaibh, qv).

ruis - elder, fiodh for the letter R, associated with, among

other things, hosting, secret pathways, healing.

rn - secret (this word has a long ancestry and would appear


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to be Indo-European and not a Norse borrowing).

rraocht - the Ulster cycle.

S

S ( ehs ) ............................................ v sail.

sebmhillteacht - illusionary destruction.

sagart - (christian or non-druid) priest.

saighen - sudden blast of wind or flash of light.

sail - willow, fiodh for the letter S, associated with, amongother things, separation, proxy.

saileach - common name for sail, willow (as a herb).

sainaicme - demonination, caste, sect.

samhail - 1) semblence, likeness, metaphor; 2) model; 3)

spectre (esp. mealladh).

Samhain (gen. Samhna) - year turning, extra night-and-day

beginning sunset 31 October (the setting of the actual date esp.

due to calendar change reflects that this is a psycho-ritual and

not an astronomical date.

samhlchaiteamh - image-wearing/throwing to solicit response.

saoi - sage (person).

saoitholacht - 1) wisdom, intellectual accomplishment; 2)

humour, mirth; 3) oddness.

saol - world, life, existance in time and space, state of

affairs, sphere of influence, totality of conditions, 7rl.

Saol Eile, an - the Otherworld (used loosely in modern Irish


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to indicate death or Heaven/Hell).

saoltacht - reality, manner of the world.

srln - "exceeding full", gestalt.

sasanaigh - english (people, cf barla).

sauntra - harp strain to (magically) induce sleep.

scil - shadow, reflection, darkness, gleam, brillance.

scl - 1) phantom; 2) hero, (cf scil).

scalach - sudden violent gust of wind or chop of waves.

scth - shadow, covering, protection, phanthom.

Scthach - woman warrior-druid living in Albu.sceach - common name of uath.

scal (-ta) - story, not neccessarily seanchas.

sciath - shield.

sciotn - sudden drastic unexpected change.

scorn - "toggle/tally", trigger of a ramhfhuireach.

scrothaocht - limits of ad lib improvisation within a

brocht which cannot be exceeded.

seabhac - hawk.

seachrn - going astray, error, delusion, distraction.

seacht - seven, number of ordered hierachies.

sad - 1) journey, pathway; 2) gem, jewel, treasure.

seaghdha sheanfhocail - the excellence of ancient word.

san (-a) - omen of good luck; 2) good luck charm; 3)

treasured person or thing.

sean-ns (-anna) - traditional custom, ancient way.

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seanchas (-ais) - ancient lore-tale (only a few of the most

important are listed by title in this foclir).

seandlaocht - archaeology.

seanfhocal - proverb.

seanghaeilge - Old Irish.

sansa - double, sending, apparition of person physically

elsewhere.

serglige - wasting sickness caused by magic.

s - v Sdhe.

S an Bhr - v Br na Bhinne.siabhradh - being (esp. minorly) effected by the Sdhe.

siabhrn - minor delusion or confusion caused by the Sdhe.

sin - cnoc Sdhe.

sian - whistle, indistinct scream or voice (esp. of the Sdhe).

Sdhe - 1) magical beings (general term as collective plural,

v neach); 2) "fairy-hill", place of permanent overlap of worlds.

sofa - (esp. minor) neach Sdhe.

sofrg - (esp. female minor) neach Sdhe.

sofrgacht - magical dealings with (usually the lesser)

Sdhe.

sig - neach Sdhe.

soga - (esp. minor) neach Sdhe.

son - (esp. sudden change to) stormy weather.

sor- - prefix: eternal.

Sithcheann - one of few smiths to also be a druid.

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necessarily by brocht; 2) spontaneously magic insight

(esp. given by procceeding (cf iomas, poc, tras); 3)

state of being fey.

slinte - health, welfare.

slaitn - wand.

sln - health, wholeness, security.

slat - staff.

Sle Bua - Spear of Victory.

sl - way, path in life, passage, journey, road, room to

proceed, correct course of action, means, method, manner,appropriateness, direction, space allowed for, 7rl.

slgad - v slua.

Slua Sdhe - hosting (mobile assembly) of Sdhe.

smaoineamh - thought, consideration, thinking-about (cf aigne 7rl).

snag breac - magpie.

sochastacht - "happy intricacy', love of complexity as

symbolic of energy, the flux and flow of the worlds intertwined.

soeis - turn, transformation, winning.

soilsi - illumination, brightening, enlightment (as in Zen 7rl).

soineann - calm fair weather.

soiscal - gospel, gossip, sermon. propaganda.

somhoill - suspension of brocht in stasis to adjust details

requiring gabhlairdeall.

sonra - details.

spir - v farraige 7rl.

sponc - coltsfoot (v adhann).


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sruth bhua - current or flow of bua (v il).

T

T ( tay ) ............................................ v tinne.

tagairt - references.

taibhreamh - dream (esp. clairoyant; cf ailsing).

taibhse - ghost.

Taillti - hill n.e. of Teamhair site of last decisive battle

between mortals and Tuatha D Danann.tin (tna) - cattle raid; a major type of seanchas.

tairbhe - 1) benefit, profit, usefulness, concern; 2) place,

activity, or object that is condictive to gaining bua or

developing br, may or may not be individually specific.

tairbhfeis - divination to choose new king.

taircheadal - (esp. verbal) prophesy

tairngire - 1) prophet (person); 2) promise (thing) 3)

precocious child.

tairngreacht - prophecy.

taise - 1) wraith, spirit-double; 2) relic; 3) ruins (esp. of

sacred place); 4) sudden swoon, faint.

taispenadh - 1) apparition (person or thing); 2)

demonstration, revelation (esp. as a major il) cf

caoilth.

talamh - v Farraige 7rl.

Tlcheann - "Adze-head", a druid epithet for Saint Patrick.


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tmas - indistinct trance vision.

tmhnal - trance in general.

taoiseach - 1) petty (cattle) lord, much lower than tiarna;

2) modern usage for the Prime Minister of Ireland.

tarbh - bull.

teachtaire - herald, messenger.

tagar - 1) substance, solidness, robustness, stoutness; 2)

shelter, warmth, comfort, beloved.

teagasc (-a) - 1) instruction; 2) doctrine, texts; 3) rote

brocht [only last use is derogatory].Teamhair (Teamhair Mhr, T. na R, T. Bhreac, 7r; gen.

Teamhrach) - "Tara", most important socio-political sacred site

of pagan Ireland under both mortals and the Tuatha D

Danann, n.e. of Dublin.

Teamhair Lachra - v Lachrn.

teanga - 1) tongue; 2) language.

teannil - beacon fire.

teannfhocal - emphatic statement, assertion (esp. of disputed matter).

tearmann - 1) sanctuary; 2) protection (of one person over another).

teine - v tine.

teinm lada - divination by chewing on raw meat.

teir (-eanna) - bad omen.

Thrbhs Mhr, an - The Great Triscele (Sea,

Earth, and Sky), whose binding (which is indivisble and may never

be broken down to three separate parts) insures the integrity of

the cosmos; as an individual binding it ensures sln, and


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as the penalty for breaking of a geis acts as a whole (the sea

rise to drown you, the earth open to swallow you, the sky fall to

crush you - v trbhs).

T na n-g - v Saol Eile.

tiarna (-) - lord (esp. a major neach Sdhe; generally

inappropriate for a mortal, execpt perhaps Amhairghin).

timpn - v tiompan.

tine - fire (v ling thar tine cnmh).

tine chnmh - bonfire.

tinne - holly, fiodh for the letter T, associated with, amongother things, conjolery, trickery, brazenness.

tiompn - 1) modern term: drum; 2) rsa: stringed

instrument like lyre or harp; 3) tambourine.

tiont - 1) turning (of tide, sid, 7rl); 2) annulment (of

law, 7rl); 3) (re-)conversion (in religion, politics, 7rl); 4)

translation (of words).

Tr Ildthach - "Many-Coloured Land", an Saol Eile.

Tr na Marbh - Land of the Dead.

Tlachtga - hill n.w. of Teamhair, site of the bruane Samhna.

tobar - well (water).

toghairm (-) - summoning invocation.

togharmach - conjurer, spiritist.

toil - will, consent, intent, mental preference (cf aigne 7rl).

toinal - trance (esp. immobile without outside originating

visions).

toit - smoke.


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toitri - 1) fumigation; 2) using enpowered smoke-mixtures.

Tongu fona dibh (Tuingim fom dhibh, Toingim dom

dibh, 7rl) - "I swear by (the/my) gods".

tonn - wave.

tonnchaint - communicating with (esp sea) waves (usually from shore).

torann - a sudden loud noise (such as thunder, 7rl).

torc - 1) neck ring open over throat (cf iodh); 2) wild boar.

torocht - pursuit, hunt; a major type of senachas.

trramh - 1) funeral wake; 2) harvest-home, crop-gathering.

trghadh - 1) ebb tide; 2) waning moon.tr (-anna) - triad, three-fold (except of persons).

tre - trident, threefold bunchur.

tradhacht - threefold srln.

tradhanas - threefold of days.

tran - "thrice richness", 1) champion(ship); 2) strength,

intensity; 3) ability; 4) plenty, abundance.

tr - three, number of binding.

trbhs - triple death, death by three simultaneous means.

trbhs - triscele.

trchos - triscele.

trchur - "three times (by three times)".

trfhth - three causes why something happens (v

trbhs), or

reasons to do something.

trir - threefold of persons.

Troid ar an bhFarraige, an - The Battle Against The Sea,


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symbolic that magnificent failure is perferable to prosaic

success, and that the means take priority over the end.

trom - common name of ruis.

troscadh - fasting, not as austerity but as protest.

tr - person fated to die soon.

tuar (-tha) - omen, good or bad.

tuath - 1) tribe; 2) countryside.

Tuatha D Danann - the "gods" (actually elder magical race)

of Ireland; the name probably does NOT refer to Danu but to

dn.tuathal - 1) pagan (the native Irish term, several other

Latin loan words are in modern usage); 2) counter-clockwise, to

bind, return to sourse, secure, close, invoke inward (cf deiseal);

modernly under christianity the word means "wrong way".

tis - incense.

tras (-a) - precognitive or clairoyant intuition (cf poc,

slacht, iomas).

turas - pilgramage.

U

U ( oo ) ............................................. v ll.

uacht - v audacht.

uaimh - cave, crypt.

Uaithne - Harp of the Dagda (v cruit).

uarn - spring (water).


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uasal - noble (person of either gender).

uath - 1) hawthorn, fiodh for the letter H, associated with,

among other things, trial, quest; 2) as prefex: spontaneous.

uathrosc - spontaneous rosc.

dars - (esp. self-assumed or unoffically acknowledged,

but valid) authority.

Uisneach - hill s.w. of Teamhair, ceremonial meeting of the

five provinces.

Uladh - Ulster.

ll - apple, fiodh for the letter U, associated with, amongother things, happiness, love.

upa - folk-charm (physical object).

upthaireacht - folk magic.

upthg - folk magic practicitioner.

urchar (-air) - "fairy dart", a sudden physical pain or

disfunction sent by the Sdhe.

urnaidhm - 1) harp string-pin; 2) pledge.

foclóir draíochta - dictionary of druidism by seán Ó tuathail

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