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I ( ee ) ............................................. v iúr.

iallach (-aigh) - bríocht of restraint or compulsion.

iarlais - changeling.

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).

ilchiallú - pun, doubled entendre, i.e. in bríocht a "sea-horse" is valid as a "horse".

ildathach - multicoloured, breac.

iloireadas - non-concurrentness of geography and time between the worlds.

ilsaoltactaíocht - (practice of) multiplicity of realities.

imbas - v iombhas.

Imbolg - high day that begins sunset 31st January.

immram - wonder voyage (late borrowing).

Inbhear Scéine - Kenmare estuary, place of mortal's first arrival in Ireland.

inchinn - brain (cf aigne, 7rl).

intinn - mind, intent, purpose, will, "bent" as basic mental characteristics (cf aigne, 7rl).

íocluibh - healing herb (general term).

iodh - (esp. neck) ring (not open over throat, cf torc).

iomarbhá - contention (usually used for róe [qv] of poets, 7rl).

iomarta - magical influence, not direct bríocht.

iomartas (-ais) - magical influence.

iomas - poetic intuition or inspiration (cf éicse; poc, síúlacht, túras).

iombhas - poetic knowledge won or attained.

iombhas forosna - a much disputed technique of trance using or gaining iombhas with which to prophesize.

iompóchur - bríocht to reverse, reflect, "boomerang" ward.

iris - 1) credo; 2) journal; 3) tryst; 4) contract; 5) texts.

iúl - 1) knowledge, expression; 2) guidance, direction; 3) attention; 4) an (esp. seemingly minor) event that solicits a response or indicates a course of action (v sruth bhua, cf caoilíth, taispeánadh).

iúr - Yew, fiodh of letter I, associated with, among other things, death and immortality, primordiality, adytum; tree from which all others sprouted.

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

lád - watercourse.

Laighean - Leinster.

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

láthair - 1) site, location; 2) presence (of person, 7rl), present place and/or time.

láthar - strength, vigour.

leabhar (-air) - 1) book (a Latin loan-word); 2) a collection of seanchais, among the most important of which include: Leabhar Buí Leacáin, L. Laighneach, L. Leasca Mhóir, and L. na hUidhre.

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

leacht - 1) grave; 2) cairn.

leannán - 1) lover (human, but specific term for of Sídhe); 2) chronic affliction, failing (character weakness).
leapaidh lánlaidhí - lit. "harbourage of complete attentions"; (esp. secure or powerful) mind-set (to do bríocht or in meditation).

léargas - insight, non- (or very light) trance vision, psychic sight.

léaspáin - dancing coloured lights (mealladh, cf méarnáil).

leathdhraíocht - "half-a-druidism" with some genuine, but many foreign elements.

Lebor Gabála, an - "The Book of Invasions", seanchas (not an actual "leabhar" of the invasions of Ireland; the first three invasions (i.e. Cesair, Partholón, 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.

léim thar - v ling thar.

léine - long shirt, tunic, vest.

léirmheas (eannna) - review (of books), critical complete assessment.

lia - 1) standing stone; 2) physician.

Lia Fáil - 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 cnámh - leap over the bonfire, to be "cooked", i.e. reaffirm social membership (cf níghe).

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

lionn iomhais - drink granting magical insight.

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

líth (líotha) - good omen indicating the day upon which it occurs is beneficial (cf caoilíth).

loachmhír - hero's portion at a feast.

Lochcrú and Lucetmael - draoithe ríogaí Teamhrach at the coming of Pádraig, the first Pádraig, the latter lost a magical battle to him by being ineptly unable to perform feats which other druids handled with ease.

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

lodairne - badly spun yarn, scraggy weaving (poorly composed bríocht).

Lúachrán (also Lúachair) - pagan capital of Munster, exact location unknown, somewhere in Co. Kerry or s.w. Co. Limerick.

lúan láith - halo-like radiance around head of person in ríastrad.

Lucetmail - v Lochrú.

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 rejuvenation; 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 ( ehm ) ............................................ v meol.

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

macgnímrada - youthful deeds; a major type of seanchas.

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 Dé Danann and Firbolg; 2) Second Battle of, Co. Sligo between Tuatha Dé Danann and Fomoire; (Tuatha Dé Danann victorious in both).

mála cruite - harp-bag, for a master harper (only), of 3 layers: otter-skin, white-speckled kid-goat-skin, (around only the strings:) white linen.

mála éithigh - "bag of false witness", bag from which lots are drawn.

mallacht (-aí) - curse.

mana - omen.

marana - contemplation (esp. verbal).

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

Marcaigh Móra Géala - "Great Bright Riders", Slua Sídhe.

meá - 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 (mealtaí) - glamour, magically-induced illusion.

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

méarnáil - phosphorescent light of (usually lesser) Sídhe.

mearú - hallucination, bewilderment, insanity, insane craving.

méirín púca - foxglove (one of many names).

meol - spindle, fiodh for the letter M, associated with, among other things, industry, ostentation.

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

Mí - v Mídhe.

Mídhe - Meath.

Míl - first human inhabitants of Ireland (usually fir Mhíle).

millteoracht - magical attack.

miodh - mead (older form, v meá).

miodhseinm - playing (music), proclamation.

mionaire - lit. fine(small) attention; perception in which data are distinct, events staccato, time contracted (cf nascaire).

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

mionnfháinne - 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 Sídhe allies, and won.

móideacht - votive offering.

molaim thú - "I praise you" given to trees, lesser Sídhe, 7rl (i.e. not generally to average humans).

moltaí - praises.

mórchúis - false self-importance.

mothú - sentience, sensory awareness, self-awareness, consciousness (cf aigne, 7rl).

mothú amhra méadú meabhraithe - very roughly , "a feeling for marvels is an expansion of awareness".

muir - v farraige, 7rl.

Mumhan - Munster.

Mumu - v Mumahn.

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

namhaid (naimhde) - enemy

naofa - 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 after which danger has passed.

naonúr - a ninefold of persons.

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

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

nascaire - lit. "link-attention"; state of perception in which 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 Sídhe".

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

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

neamh - v farraige, 7rl.

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 inár lámha, fírinne ar ár dteanga, glaine inár gcroí. - "strength in our arms, truth on our tongue, clarity in our heart", definition of fianna honour (several minor variants exist).

Néide - youth who contested in iomarbhá to claim the supremacy of poet-druids of Ulster (qv Immacallam).

neidín - "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 Gabála.

ní hanasa - "Not difficult", a standard beginning to answering a question requiring expert knowledge.

ní heisce gan ríga gúasacht báis - maxim that a king (or any political leader) must always occupy the position of greatest danger in any battle in which his people take part.

níghe - washing, ritually done already regalia 'd, not as cleansing, but as "crossing" into ritual space (cf ling thar tine cnámh).

nion - ash-tree, fiodh for the letter N, associated with, among other things, battle, asceticism, prudence.

nuáil - (generally acceptable) innovation.