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

tagairtí - references.

taibhreamh - dream (esp. clairvoyant; cf aisling).

taibhse - ghost.

Tailltiú - hill n.e. of Teamhair site of last decisive battle between mortals and Tuatha Dé Danann.

táin (tána) - cattle raid; a major type of seanchas.

tairbhe - 1) benefit, profit, usefulness, concern; 2) place, activity, or object that is conducive to gaining bua or developing brí, 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.

taispeánadh - 1) apparition (person or thing); 2) demonstration, revelation (esp. as a major iúl) cf caoilíth.

talamh - v farraige, 7rl.

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

támas - indistinct trance vision.

támhnéal - 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.

téagar - 1) substance, solidness, robustness, stoutness; 2) shelter, warmth, comfort, beloved.

teagasc (-a) - 1) instruction; 2) doctrine, texts; 3) rote bríocht [only last use is derogatory].

Teamhair (Teamhair Mhór, T. na Rí, T. Bhreac, 7r; gen. Teamhrach) - "Tara", most important socio-political sacred site of pagan Ireland under both mortals and the Tuatha Dé Danann, n.e. of Dublin.

Teamhair Lúachra - v Lúachrán.

teanga - 1) tongue; 2) language.

teannáil - beacon fire.

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

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

teine - v tine.

teinm laída - divination by chewing on raw meat.

teir (-eanna) - bad omen.

Thríbhís Mhór, an - The Great Triscele (Sea, Earth, and Sky), whose binding (which is indivisible and may never be broken down to three separate parts) insures the integrity of the cosmos; as an individual binding it ensures slán, and 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 tríbhás).

Tí na n-óg - v Saol Eile.

tiarna (-í) - lord (esp. a major neach Sídhe; generally inappropriate for a mortal, except perhaps Amhairghin).

timpán - v tiompan.

tine - fire (v ling thar tine cnámh).

tine chnámh - bonfire.

tinne - holly, fiodh for the letter T, associated with, among other things, cajolery, trickery, brazenness.

tiompán - 1) modern term: drum; 2) ársa: stringed instrument like lyre or harp; 3) tambourine.

tiontú - 1) turning (of tide, sid, 7rl); 2) annulment (of law, 7rl); 3) (re-)conversion (in religion, politics, 7rl); 4) translation (of words).

Tír Ildáthach - "Many-Coloured Land", an Saol Eile.

Tír na Marbh - Land of the Dead.

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

tobar - well (water).

toghairm (-í) - summoning invocation.

togharmach - conjurer, spiritist.

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

toinéal - trance (esp. immobile without outside originating visions).

toit - smoke.

toitriú - 1) fumigation; 2) using empowered smoke-mixtures.

Tongu fona déibh (Tuingim fom dhéibh, Toingim dom déibh, 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.

toríocht - pursuit, hunt; a major type of seanchas.

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

trághadh - 1) ebb tide; 2) waning moon.

tré (-anna) - triad, three-fold (except of persons).

treá - trident, threefold bunchur.

tréadhacht - threefold sárlán.

tréadhanas - threefold of days.

tréan - "thrice richness", 1) champion(ship); 2) strength, intensity; 3) ability; 4) plenty, abundance.

trí - three, number of binding.

tríbhás - triple death, death by three simultaneous means.

tríbhís - triscele.

tríchos - triscele.

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

trífháth - three causes why something happens (v tríbhás), or reasons to do something.

triúr - threefold of persons.

Troid ar an bhFarraige, an - The Battle Against The Sea, symbolic that magnificent failure is preferable 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.

trú - person fated to die soon.

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

tuath - 1) tribe; 2) countryside.

Tuatha Dé Danann - the "gods" (actually elder magical race) of Ireland; the name probably does NOT refer to Danu but to dán.

tuathal - 1) pagan (the native Irish term, several other Latin loan words are in modern usage); 2) counter-clockwise, to bind, return to source, secure, close, invoke inward (cf deiseal); modernly under christianity the word means "wrong way".

túis - incense.

túras (-a) - precognitive or clairvoyant intuition (cf poc, síúlacht, iomas).

turas - pilgrimage.

U ( oo ) ............................................. v úll.

uacht - v audacht.

uaimh - cave, crypt.

Uaithne - Harp of the Dagda (v cruit).

uarán - spring (water).

uasal - noble (person of either gender).

uath - 1) hawthorn, fiodh for the letter H, associated with, among other things, trial, quest; 2) as prefix: spontaneous.

uathrosc - spontaneous rosc.

údarás - (esp. self-assumed or unofficially acknowledged, but valid) authority.

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

Uladh - Ulster.

úll - apple, fiodh for the letter U, associated with, among other things, happiness, love.

upa - folk-charm (physical object).

upthaireacht - folk magic.

upthóg - folk magic practitioner.

urchar (-air) - "fairy dart", a sudden physical pain or dysfunction sent by the Sídhe.

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