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

caerthann - v caorthann.

cailleach - 1) hag (esp. as aithriocht of neach Sídhe); 2) precocious young girl.

cáin - official law, tax to rulers (as opposed to tradition or éiric).

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

cáinte - (esp. unjust) satirist.

caitheamh - cast(ing) fiodhrádh, 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 árach.

caoilíth - omen that what has been said or done is correct (cf líth, iúl, taispeánadh).

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 on Emhain Macha, bound when he was lied to by the king.

céadfa (-í) - bodily sense (or one of normal 5), normal perception/conception.

céalmhaire - omen.

cearc - hen.

ceard - craft, skill, art.

ceart tar críoch (also cert tar crích) - right of poets to cross all political borders with safety.

ceas - 1) surfeit, excess; 2) woe, grief, debility, esp. long-lasting or repetitive, esp. as result of mallacht.

céile - companion, spouse.

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

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

ceobhrán - haze, light mist.

ceol - music.

Cesair - v Lebor Gabála.

ciall - sense. sanity, normal or habitual state of mind, faculty of logic, meaning; (cf aigne, 7rl).

ciapóg - (magically induced) confusion or delusion.

cinnbheart - head-dress, esp. feathered.

cinniúint - 1) fate (general term, cf dán); 2) misfortune, tragedy.

cinnte - certainly, surely.

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

Cithruad - ard-draoi ríogaí of king Cormac who lost to Mogh Roith (qv).

ciúta (-í) - 1) quip; 2) flourish; 3) trick; 4) "extra decoration", stylistic addition in bríocht with no bua itself but used to help make it unique.

claenmhíl - family totem.

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

beirmhíl - personal totem involving taking of name and geis against killing (additional) members of species.

Claíomh Solais - Sword of Light.

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

clann - children, family, race, followers.

clárú - 1) tabulation, listing (of kings, attributes, 7rl); 2) to beat, flatten, 7rl; 3) slang: fuck; 4) modern: to programme a computer.

clé - left (hand).

cleachtadh (-aí) - 1) lesson; practice; 2) habitual wont; 3) practical experience.

cleas - feat of prowess, "trick" (but not with the idea of skill, not cheating).

cleathainsí (pl.) - paraphernalia, odds and ends, personal belongings, (esp. minor) props and aids to magic.

clí - 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.

clós - henge, enclosure.

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

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

cnáib - hemp, cannabis.

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

cnoc (cnoic) - hill.

cnúdánaí - 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 éirme - cauldron of warming, lowest of 3 coirí filíochta (qv).

coire fhís - cauldron of knowledge, highest of 3 coirí filíochta (qv).

coire goir - cauldron of motion, middle of 3 coirí filíochta (qv).

coirí filíochta (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).

cóiriú - arranging (esp. the details), used of tuning a harp or "fiddling" with a bríocht with or without somhoill.

coisc - v cosc.

coitiantacht - 1) [without qualifying adjective:] the consensus 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; explicitly stated as tree most favoured by Tuatha Dé 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.

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

comhnasc - joint linkage, binding two or more things equally together, with or without sárlán.

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

comhtheaghmas (rud) - conjuncture of things, entities in relationships.

comhtheagmhas - coincidence, serial, across time/space (cf comhtharlú).

comóradh - assembly, celebration, accompaniment.

cóngar - 1) proximity, vicinity; 2) convenient equipment, means/tools ready to hand (cf garmheas).

Conmaince Réin - mountain in Connacht, arrival site of Tuatha Dé Danann, identity uncertain, possibly Maol Réidh.

Connacht - Connacht.

contúirt - 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, exhaustion, agreement.

corr - point, edge, hollow, pit, crane (bird), eel, odd (i.e. not even), curve.

corrbolg - "crane bag", magical treasure bag.

corrguineacht - "crane magic", bríocht, esp. mallacht, on one foot, one eye closed, one hand in belt.

cosc - defence, protection, prevention, restrain.

cráin - sow.

crainnchaint - communicating with live trees.

crann (crainn) - 1) tree ( v bile); the three most important trees are luis, iúr, and coll (qv); 2) pole, shaft, wooden frame, penis, full growth, best part, misfortune, attitude, important person, fate, tune, offer, 7rl.

crannchur - 1) ársa: casting of lots, not limited to fiodhrádh; 2) modern: lottery, sweepstake.

crannóg - artificial island dwelling.

cré-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 in ancient Ireland.

Cromm Dubh - v Cromm Croich.

crot - v cruit.

Crúachán Aí - pagan socio-political capital of Connacht.

Cruachán Aigle - former pagan name of Cruach Pádraig.

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.

cruthú - to create and prove true, cf fíorú.

cú - hound.

Cú Roí (Cú Rói) - druid-king of Munster (only king of a province to be also a druid) whose totem was a salmon.

cuaifeach - whirlwind.

cuairt coimhgí - circle of safe-keepings.

cúig - five, number of general total, fullness, or completion (cf naoi).

cúige - 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 one never knew one had until after one lost it.

cumhacht - power, authority, influence, 7rl .

cur - v cuir.

curadmhír - v laochmhír.