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F ( ehf ) ............................................ v fearn.

fabht - (esp. hidden) defect, basic flaw, unsoundness at core (cf éalang, locht).

fach - challenge, declaration of foe-ship.

fáidh - 1) divinator; 2) wiseman.

fail - ring, bracelet, enclosure (v fál).

fáilte - welcome, happiness.

fáinne - (finger) ring, v mionnfháinne.

faire (-í) - 1) ward to guard against; 2) funeral wake.

faisnéis - eye-witness testimony.

fáistine - divination.

fáith - prophet.

fál - 1) hedge, fence, barrier (of protection, 7rl - v airbe); 2) Ireland.

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

Farraige, talamh, is spéir. - Sea, earth, and sky (variants include "muir" for "farraige" and "neamh" for "spéir", v Thríbhís Mhór).

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

fáthlia - herbal doctor.

feá - common name of páigh.

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.

fearnóg - common name for fearn.

fearr fear a chineadh - "a man is better than his birth", maxim that anyone may rise as his skill allows.

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

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

féath fíadha - magical mists of invisibility.

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

féige - roof-tree, lintel (touched during blessing on all within when entering a dwelling).

feilmhleas - clairvoyant charm (general term).

féineas - selfhood.

feis - 1) festival; 2) sexual intercourse.

feoras - common name of meol.

fia - deer.

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

fiadhrádh - (a pun on/for fiodhrádh meaning "esteemed utterance").

fianna (plural) - band of warrior allowable-outlaws sworn to protect society but independent of it.

Fiannaíocht - seanchais of Fionn, Oisín, and the Fianna.

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

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

filideacht - v filíocht.

filíocht - poetry, i.e. verbal magic.

fine - (often greatly) extended family group.

fiodh (-aí) - a single element of the fiodhrádh.

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

fiodhrádh - lit. "wooden utterance", the druidic system of divination by means of tree-letter-names.

Fionn Éiceas - 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.

fíor - 1) figure, shape, image, symbol; 2) truth, pledge; cf fírinne.

fíorainm (-ainmneacha or ársa: -anmann) - "true name", binding name.

Fíorcheann - "True-Head", Malen Head, the northern-most point of Ireland.

fíordhraoi - v draoi allta.

fíorú - to symbolize and verify, cf cruthú.

fiosaíocht - parapsychics (modern term).

fiothnais - feat of harmful magic.

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

fir fer - combat code requiring, among other things, due notice and equalisation of weapons.

fírinne - truth(fulness), more abstract or impersonal than fíor (qv).

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

flaith - 1) sovereignty; 2) prince.

fleá - feast (cf feis).

flead - v fleá.

fleasc - wand (esp. of coll).

focail bána - 1) "white words", words empty of truth and/or bua; 2) Latin.

focal (focail) - word, pledge.

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

foclóir - dictionary.

Fódla - Ireland.

fógairt (-gartha) - 1) proclamation; 2) ward to compel, esp expel.

fogla dílsi - allowable plunder.

fóidín mearaí - lit. "little sod of confusion", place where directions are false, deliberate pit-fall, intentional misinformation (may be actual physical place - cf frithbhuachán, or more general).

foirteagal - binding by names or words of power.

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

Fomoirí - foreign enemies of Tuatha Dé Danann.

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

formhothú - lit."over-sensation"; extension of (esp. bodily) perception beyond limits of body-skin, with/without iarrairdeall (qv).

fortach - oath or bríocht that overrides or supersedes another.

foscéal - 1) minor seanchas, or aside-seanchas within longer one; 2) by extension of above: minor matter or event.

frithbheart - incompatible element, contradiction.

frithbhuachán - a place or thing which drains bua or assaults brí, may or may not be individually specific (cf dlaoi fulla).

frithchosúlacht - paradox.

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

fuinseog - common name of nion.

G ( gay ) ............................................ v giúis.

gá - need, requirement; cf gáu.

gabhlairdeall - "forked attention", division of consciousness, esp. during somhoill.

gad - marker attached to object as evidence of claim.

gaeilge - the Irish language the correct english is "Irish"; while "Gaelic" includes Scots and Manx).

gaeilgeoireacht - (act or study of) speaking Irish.

gáeth - v gaoth.

gall (gaill) - person of foreign affinity.

gallán - standing stone.

gaol (-ta) - person of kindred affinity.

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

garmheas - convenient judgment, approximate opinion, pragmatic (but not exact) estimation, temporary "make-do" technique (cf cóngar).

garrán - grove.

gáu - 1) injustice; 2) falsehood.

geal - bright, pure.

gealach - moon.

geantraí - harp strain to (magically) induce laughter.

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

geilt (-e) - madman living in wilds, shunning others, with shaman-like magical powers (cf díthreabhach).

geis (geasa) - magically bound injuncture or duty, individual and contextual, having force of dán, explicitly not a taboo since many geasa required the person bound to perform, not avoid, the required activity.

giorria - hare.

giúis - pine, fiodh for the letter G, associated with, among other things, social responsibility, valour.

glám díceann - short exhibitionistic (magical) satire.

gléas - arrangement, means, facilities, instrument, tool, dress, preparation.

gnách - mundane, common.

gnáth - customary thing or action.

go gcumhdaí is dtreoraí na déithe thú - "May the gods guard and guide you".

goirmín - woad.

goltraí - harp strain to (magically) induce weeping.

gorm - blue, associated with protection and magic.

Greallach Dallaid - Mire of Blindness, hidden sanctuary.

gréasán - 1) web, network; 2) tangle, complication; 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) disguise, used sarcastically of would-be wizard.

gruaim - despond, dejection, self-pity.

gúbreatha - false judgment, v gáu.

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

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