A ( aw ) v áirne.

abhainn - river.

ábhar (ábhair) - student, subject, potential quality, fair portion.

abú - 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".

ádh - "good luck" as either good dán or as indicated by líth.

adhann - coltsfoot (v sponc).

ádhmharaighe - lit. "lucky injury", paradoxical serendipity, i.e. the wrong thing at the right time, something wherein an error produces a result better than planned, 7rl.

áer - v aoir.

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

aes dána - poets, harpers, artists as a social privileged class.

ag tosú - at (the) beginning.

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

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

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

aigne - mind, basic dispositions, emotional outlook, basic inclinations (cf aireachtail. ciall, cuihmne, dúil, éirim, inchinn, intinn, meabhair, meanma, meon, mothú, smaoineamh, toil).

ail anscuichthe - "immovable (large) stone", validating testimony from a non-plant/animal/person.

áilgeis - 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.

aíocht - hospitality as a duty.

airbhe - an encircling "hedge" which protects those inside and may be crossed but with ill effect on whom does so.

aircheadal - set-piece poetry or chant.

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

áireán - being nocturnal, night vigil, visiting at night.

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

airmert - 1) preparation, equipment; 2) effort; 3) prohibitive bríocht (not as strong as geis.

áirne - blackthorn, fiodh for letter A, associated with, among other things, quarrel, vigil.

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

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

aitire - hostage surety.

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

Almu - dún of the fianna in n. Co. Kildare (cf Dún Aillinne).

altramas - fosterage between generations more important than blood-ties.

amadán - fool (esp. one with briotais of getting others in trouble).

amhailt - 1) threatening phantom; 2) fomothú, etc., of threat. amhainseacht - paleo-shamanism, seizure trance.

Amhairghin Glúingeal - first and greatest mortal poet-druid who challenged the Tuatha Dé 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 stuck with this forever").

amhra - wonder, marvel, nobility, charm.

amhrán - song.

amú - 1) wasted, in vain; 2) astrray (as from Sídhe).

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

anam - soul (probably a loan-word, v bradán, brí).

anamimirce - transmigration of soul.

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

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

ánruth- v ánradh.

aoir - bríocht satire, usually mallacht.

aonarán - hermit, recluse (cf díthreabach).

aor - v aoir.

aosán - neach Sídhe of il-intent.

árach - 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.

ardrí - high-king.

ardtiarna - high lord, one of the ranking leaders, master adepts, etc., of the Tuatha Dé Danann or any neach Sídhe of equivalent nature (never used for any mortal).

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

ársa - ancient, archaic.

ársachumadh - deliberate anacharicism or archaicization in seanchais.

asarlaí - occultist, ritual magician.

asarlaíocht - 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 clairvoyant sense of an object).

athair thalún - yarrow.

athdholb - shape-shifted form.

athgabháil - allowable reprisal.

athionchollú - reincarnation (not a regular feature of draíocht).

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

athshocrú - alternate arrangement (during smhoill, etc.)

audacht - (text) of learned reportage and advice (modern Irish "uacht" is "will, testament").