This vocabulary is intended to be a list of words, phrases and quotations used in the text, together with their roots, modifiers and some synonyms. Since words from Gáidhlig, Irish, Scots, Lallans, Norse and Welsh are included, together with archaic forms, this can not be, and should not be viewed as, a complete dictionary of any one language or dialect. In conflicts between Gáidhlig and Irish, we usually adopt Gáidhlig usage, as the least corrupted speech. But we find that some modern Gáidhlig and Irish words are not of true Celtic derivation, but are closer to other languages. Most of this denigration of our language is a result of English oppression which prohibited us from using or teaching it for more than two hundred years. For instance, the Gáidhlig words "onair," meaning honor or honour, and "Mairi," meaning Mary, are apparently of Norman French derivation, adopted into the English language, and taken from English into Gàidhlig during the period of the disarming act. In the first case, we went back to ancient Celtic to find "enech," which we deem to be a more appropriate word to express this important concept of Celtic culture. In the second, we found that Mairi is now so ingrained in Highland culture, that it would be counter-productive to make an issue of it. But perhaps the best example of this corruption is the fact that the Gáidhlig alphabet does not include the letters J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y or Z, and H is used only as an aspirant, to change words from the nominative to the genitive case, and in front of some words beginning with vowels. How then have we evolved Kildare, or Dunniveg? Perhaps our most important contribution is to correct the spellings and translations of some words important to our family, such as "Tighearna Coille" in place of Tinnakill, "Dun Luths" for Dun Luce, "Dun Naibhig," rather than Dunniveg, "Dun Abhartaidh," instead of Dunaverty, "Bun Na Mairge" in place of of Bunamargy, "Finlagan" correcting Finlaggan, or "Dunbarton" for Dumbarton, etc., and is the justification for publication in this present incomplete form. Removing English influence from our heritage is like dealing with lice or silverfish, they are everywhere.
This is a work in progress and we anticipate frequent additions and corrections to our list, as new research reveals more and more of our heritage, and as time allows further editing of the existing list, which was begun over twenty five years ago, when our knowledge was even more rudimentary than it now is. We do find study and comparison of these words and their roots to be instructive in more than one context, and we hope our readers will find the same. We also hope that you will contribute additions to this list that you know of. We only ask that you also furnish your sources, so that we can maintain authenticity to the best of our ability.
A - rel. pron., who, which, that.
A - poss. pron., his, hers, its, of
A - art., the
À (Ag) - prep., at, which see
Aba - n.m., abbot, father
Abair - irr. v., say
Abar - n., confluence, estuary (only in place names)
Abarach - 1. adj., bold, 2. n.f., a bold brazen woman, 3. prep., of or pertaining to Lochaber
Abartach - adj., talkative
Abhag - n.f., a terrier
Abhainn (Aibhne) - n.f., a river
Abhainn Cluaidh (Clóta) - River of the Green Plain, River Clyde in southwest Scotland
Abhartaidh - adv., festivals, feasting
Abrach - 1. contraction of Abarach, 2. of Lochaber
Ach! - interj., Oh!, Alas!
Ach - conj., but, except, save, if only
Achadh - n.m., a field
Achadh Cruidhe - n.m., horseshoe field
Achadh nan Con (Scots - Achnacon) - field of the hounds
Achadh nam Bo (Irish - Aghaboe) - Field of the Cows, early Irish monastery in Leinster
Ach! na breac! - Oh! the pock marks!
Acras - n.m., hunger
Ad (Aide) - n.f., a hat
Ada - n., (old Irish) Victory
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dh - n.m., luck, success, good fortuneAdharc - n.f., a horn
Adhartan - n.f., cushion
Adhbhar Ollamhan - eligible to be ollamh
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dh mór! (Ort) - Good luck! Good bye!Adhradh (Aoradh) - n.m., worship
Ádhúil - adj., lucky, fortunate
A Dhuimhneacha, Dhuimhneacha, cuimhnichibh úr boineidean! - Campbells, Campbells, mind your bonnets! Quotation attributed to Iain Lom, The Bard of Lochaber.
Aedh (Aoidh, Aodh, Uisdein) - name, lit. Fire, Fiery, in Irish mythology a messianic leader who would save the Gael. Rendered as Hugh in English
Aedh Anradhan mac Ainmere - prop.n., Hugh of the Ague, son of Ainmere, High King 604-612
Aedh Buidhe - Yellow Haired Hugh. Progenitor of the ÓNeills of Clandeboye & Lecale.
Aedh Finn - Fair or White Hugh, 8th Century King of Dalriada
Aedh Flann - Red Hugh. Chief of the Clandeboye ÓNeills who built Caislen Riabhach c.1350.
Aeneas (Oengus, Irish - Aengus) - n.m., Angus, name meaning "unique choice" In Scottish mythology, the God of Love, whose kisses became birds.
Aengus Óg - a manifestation of the pagan Celtic sun god
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es Dana - (old Irish) bold people, order of Druids, men of skill, aristocracyÁ
es Sídhe - (old Irish) people of the hollow hills, shee folk, fairiesAfraighe - n.m., a rising, preparation for battle
Ag (Agam) - prep., at, with him, her or it
Agam, Agad - etc.
Agh - n.m., happiness, luck, success
Aghach - adj., warlike
Aghaidh, an aghaidh - prep., in the face of, against
Againn - prep., at, with them
Aghalard - adj., unready for war
A ghráidh - my dear, my darling
Agus - conj., and (formal)
Agut - conj., and (Irish)
Aidh - suffix, renders the preceeding noun plural.
Aife - n.f. (Colloquial - Skye) - Reflection. Opponent of Queen Sgáthaich in The Táin Bó Cuailnge.
Aig (Ag) - prep., at, near, near to, close by, on account of, for, in possession
Aighnidh - n.m., happiness
Ail - n.f., desire, will
Aileach - n.m., the desirable one, the preferred
Ailean - n.m., a green, a plain
Ailein - name, The Splendid, Alan, Allan
Ailing - adj., sweet, lovable
Àille - n.f., beauty, sublimity, glory, dignity,
Àille - adj., beautiful
Àillead - n.m., beauty
Ailpeinich - n.m., one of the Clan Alpine
Ailsa (Aillse) - n.m., diminutive creature, a fairy
Ailsa Creag - n.m., Fairy Rock
Aimhreitich - v., entangle, disorder, entwine as thread, put in confusion
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ine - n.f., the liver of fishAingeal - n.m., light, fire, an angel
Air (ar’) - prep., upon, on, of, concerning
Airbhe - (old Irish) n.m., Druidh magic circle
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ird - n.f., 1. airt, point (of the compass) 2. promontory (not necessarily high) 3. condition, state 4. height 5. plan, expedientÀird nam Murchan - Land of the Great Seas. Ardnamurchan. A peninsula and district in the West Highlands.
Air do shláinte - toast, to your good health
Aire - n., (old Irish) freeman
Aire - n.f., attention, care, heed, notice. Also a government minister.
Àireach - n.m., a dairyman
Àireachas - n.m., a dairy
Aireachas - n.m., vigilance, attention
Aireacht - n.f., a government ministry.
Aireachta (Urraghts) - n., (Irish) leading nobles
Àirean - n.m., a ploughman
Airecht - n., (old Irish) legislature (Gáidhlig - Oireacht)
Àireineachd - n.m., a plow
Airgialla - prop.n., (English - Oriel) lit. concerning Hostages; The Hostage Givers. Provincial kingdom in Ulaidh subordinate to the Thuaidh Ui Neill.
Airgid - adj., silver
Airidh - n.m., a shieling, a summer grazing place, a field
Airidh mhicc Dhomhnuil - summer grazing of the descendants of World Mighty
Airim - n.m., plough
Air mullach cnocan cruinn ris an abairte Gocam-go - on the top of a round hillock they call Gocam-gó
Airt - prop.n., The Rock. 2nd Century High King of the Irish.
Ais - n.m. back (air ais - backward)
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ith - n.m., kilnAketon (Irish) - n.m., a sleeveless jack or coat worn under a coat of mail
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lainn - adj., beautifulAlasdáir - name, Offspring from a Bull, Bull Calf, usually anglicized as Alexander
Alasdair Carrach - Alexander the Warty. Fourth son of Good John of Islay, 7th Lord of The Isles and progenitor of the MacDonells of Keppoch.
Alasdair Cathanach - Alexander of the Battles, 5th Chief of the MacDonnells of Dun Naibhig & The Glens, d.1538
Alasdáir Cholla Chiotaich (Colkitto) - Alexander, the left-handed Colla. Hero of the Jacobite Risings.
Alasdáir Dubh Ghleann Garaidh - Black Alexander of Glengarry, also called Alasdáir Ciar (Sable Alexander)
Alasdair MacIan Duibh - Alexander the son of Dark James. Chieftain of a cadet sept of the MacDonalds of Glencoe who was a victim of the 1692 massacre.
Alasdair Mac Mhaghistir Alasdair - Alexander, The Son of Master Alexander. A great poet of Clanranald.
Alasdair Mhór - Alexander the elder (k.1299). Younger brother of Oengus Mhór, 4th of The Isles, and progenitor of Clan Alasdair of Kintyre.
Alasdair nan Cleas - Alexander of the Tricks MacRanald, 10th chief of Keppoch, known for his killing of the three Bohuntin MacDonalds who were allied with the MacIntoshes.
Alasdáir nan Coille - Alexander of the Woods, 4th Chief of the MacDonells of Glengarry (d. 1460)
Alasdair Ogh - Young Alexander, 5th Lord of The Isles. d.1308
Alba - n.f., Scotland; gen. Albann, dat. Albainn
Albannach - n.m., A Person of the Living Surface World, a Scot, Celtic Scot, a Scotsman (originally a pre-Scottish Celt)
Albannach - adj., Scottish
Albannaich - n.m.pl., People of the Living Surface World, Scots, Celtic Scots, Scotsmen
Allt - n.m. gen. & n.pl., a river with precipitous banks, a similar stream, burn, or brook
Allt an Áth Dheirig - Stream of the Red (bloody) Ford, where Caeilin Mhór Campbell was killed by the MacDougalls
Allt á Chomhlachaidh - prop.n., Stream of the Conference, site of a famous 1294 meeting between the MacDougalls and the Campbells.
Allt nam Meirleach - prop.n., Stream of the Thief, site of a 1680 battle between Campbell of Glenorchy and Clan Sinclair.
Am - n.m. , time, season, opportunity, fit time (pl. - Amannan)
Am (An) - pers.pron., their
Amar - n.m., bed (of a river or other body of water)
Amar Thuath - North Channel, northern outlet from the Irish Sea
Am bás nan triath - The demise of the lordship
Am Bratach Sith - prop.n., The Fairy Flag (of the Dunvegan MacLeods)
Am Faoilteach - n.m., January, the time of the storm days, the "Wolf Month"
Am Fear As Sine - n.m., Senior
Am Fear As Sineann - n.m.pl., Seniors
Amhairc - v., look, see, behold, observe, regard, attend
Am Márt - n.m., Month of March, Seed Time, Time of pressure or stress
Am measg - prep., among
A muigh - in favor (of)
An, Am - art., the
An, Am - poss. pron., their
An, Am - interr. particle
An, Am - rel. pron., whom
An aghaidh - prep., against
Anam - n.m., soul
Anam chára - soul friend
An Arabhaig à Leargaidh Ghallda - The Skirmish at the Foreigner’s Slopes (Largs)
An Caol Airsaigh - The Sound of Our Pregnant Bitch. Sound on the coast of Moidart famous as the landing site of Prince Charles Stuart and the "Seven Men of Moidart" to begin "The '45."
An Caol Muileach - The Sound of Mull.
An cath na Traigh Ghruineart - The field of Gruineart Strand. 1598 battle in Islay between the MacDonalds and the MacLeans of Duart.
An Ceann Ileach - the Islay hilt (of a sword or claymore)
An Ceitean - n.m., Month of May, Time of Visiting
An chioch a ta fam dha sháil, Uaithé ráidhtear Innis Fáill - The stone beneath my two heels, from it is ruled the Isle of Destiny. Prophesy concerning the Lia Faill.
An Ciaran Mabach - The Swarthy Stammerer
An Comhairle nan Eilean - The Council of the Isles
An Cruthachadh N'Alba - The creation or birth of Scotland
An Cumhachd Nam MhiccDhomhnuil - The Power Of The Descendants Of World Mighty
An Damhair - n.m., Month of October, The Time of the Rutting of the Deer
An deidh - prep., after
An deidh mheadhon la - n., afternoon
An dol am miosad nam Eaglais Cheiltich - the decline of the Celtic Church
An drasda - adv., now, presently
An Dubhghall - the Dark Stranger
An Dúbhlachd - n.m., Month of December, The Dark Season
An Dunan Mhór - The Great Fort. Early stronghold of Cineal Oenghusa at the mouth of the River Lagan in Islay.
An fhionan - left me
An Fiar - n.f., the pervert
An Gearran - n.m., February, The Gelding, traditionally the time from March 15 to April 15
An Giblean - n.m., Month of April, Time of the Spring hunt, especially migratory birds
An Gobain - prop.n., The Points of Rock. Sea Cliffs on Island Magee, North Antrim. The Gobbins.
An Lanndair - the beautiful side (of the island, country)
An Leisteir (Genitive - Fhleisteir) - n.m., arrowmaker, MacPheidearin, Fletcher
An Lúnasdal - n.m., Month of August, Lugnasadh, Time of the Fair of the God Lug Lamfata
An MacDhomhnuil - The Son of World Mighty. Title reserved for the high chief of Clan Donald.
Anmoch - adj., adv., late
Ann (Anns) - prep., in, into
Ann - adv., there, here
Annála Ríoghachta Éireann - Annals of the Kingdom Of Ireland, popularly known as The Annals Of The Four Masters, compiled from earlier annals between 1632 and 1636 by Franciscan Monk, Michael Ó Cléirigh and three collaborators
Annam (Annad) - prep., in me, in thee, etc.
An Nuadh Saoghal - the new world
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nradh - n.m., disorder, distress, disasterÁ
nradhan - adj., prep., of the ague, having agueAn Rioghachd Nam Dál Riata - The Realm Of The Tribe Of The Victorious King
An Sgeul Brònach Na Domhnuil Dubh - Title, The Tragic Tale Of Donald The Black
An Tabhannaich - The Baying of Hounds, name - a slope on the shore of Loch Finlagan opposite Eilean Mhuireil thought to have been the site of the kennels of the lordship of The Isles
An t-Iuchar - n.m., Month of July, The Warm Month, Dog Days
An t-Og Mhios - n.m., Month of June, The Month of the Young
An Torr áBreithimh - The Mound of Judgement (in Islay)
Antrom - adj., grevious to be borne, very heavy, oppressive
Antrom - prop.n., Antrim, Place of Oppression.
An t-Samhain - n.m., Month of November, Time of The Feast of the Dead
An t-Sultain - n.m., Month of September, Time of plenty (lit. - time of plumpness)
Aodach - nm., a cloth, clothes, clothing, wear
Aodach na feasgairean - evening wear
Aoidh (coigreach) - n.f., guest
Aoidh (also Aedh, Aodh, Uisdean) - name. Hugh
Aoiteagh - n., guesthouse (Latin - Hospitium)
Aon, h-aon - nu., adj., adv., one, alone, same, only
Aonach - n.m., 1. a green rocky coastal plain, a green beach. 2. a meeting, a marketplace. 3. moor, hill, steep slope.
Aonach Dubh - prop.n., Black Hill, mountain adjoining Glencoe
Aonar - nu. n., one person, alone
Aoradh - n.m., act of worship, adoration, adoring
Ar - 1. seems, from 2. poss. pron., our,
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r - 1. n.m., ploughing, 2. n.m., slaughter, 3. n.m., a kidneyArabhaig - n.f., strife, skirmish, contention
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rach - n.m., field of slaughter, a battlefieldArachor - n., the land that could be plowed by a spade in a year
Áraidh - adj., certain
Aran - n.m., bread, livelihood
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ras (Teach, Tegos, Tigh) - n., (Scottish) houseArasaid - n., plaid pleated woman's garment reaching from neck to ankle fastened at breast by a large brooch and at waist by a belt
Arbhar - n.m., corn in shief or growing
Ard (airde) - adj., high, lofty, supreme, tall, head, top; answers to English prefix "arch."
Ard fathi - n., high priest
Ard Ghobhar - Height of the Goats, Ardgour, a district on Loch Linnhe in the West Highlands
Ardgour - Top of (Gleann) Gour. A district of Garmòran in the lands of Clanranald
Ard Macha - prop.n., Heights of Macha, Armagh
Ard Righ - n., high king
Ari (Arin) - prep., from the, of the (archaic)
A ris (Rithisd) - adv., again
Arisaigh - Our Pregnant Bitch
Arm - n.m., a weapon, the army
Arm Phoblacht na hÉireann - Irish Republican Army
Aros - n.m., habitation, house
Arranach - n.m., a resident of the Isle of Arran
Arsa (ars’) - defect. v., said
Art - (Norse suffix) a shallow sea loch
Artairich - n., one of the Clan Arthur
As - prep., out of
As - rel. form of v., is
Asam, Asad - etc., out of us, you
Ascaoin - adj., 1. harsh, inclement. 2. wrong side of cloth.
Ascaoin - v., curse, excommunicate
Askomull - (Scots) Prop.n., Harsh Summit. Area on the north shore of Loch Kilkerran, Kintyre
Ath - prefix, new, next, after, later
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th - n., ford, river crossingAth Lighen - n.m., (Irish) Ford of the Graves, site of a 1419 battle between Clanrickard Burke and Fitzgerald of Kildare
A thaing - v., come forth
Athair (athar) - n.m., a father, an ancestor
Ath Fodhla - n.(middle Irish, old Gaelic), lit. Ireland over the water, New Ireland, Atholl
Ath Lighen - Ford of the Floods
Aulaidh - name, Olaf
Auld (Scots) - adj., old
Aye - adv., yes
Ba - n.f.pl., cows
Bà - int., a lullaby ( Bà, Bà mo leanabh - Sleep, Sleep my child)
Bà - adv., foolish, simple
Bacach - adj., lame, cripple, drunk
Bach - n.m., drunkenness
Bach thinneas - n.m., sickness occasioned by drinking, delirium tremens
Baculus - n., staff, crutch, walking stick, cane
Bad - nm., a tuft, clump
Bàgh - n.m., a bay, a harbor
Bàghasdail - n.m., Bay Of The Meeting, Boisdale. a bay on the island of South Uist.
Bàgh Bhatarsaigh - n.m., Bay of The Bitch Boat. Norse source for the name of the Isle of Vatersay.
Baile - n.m., a town, a village, a township
Baile á Chaolais - prop.n., Ballachulish, the town of the strait
Baile Atha An Righ - Ford of the Town of the King, Athenry
Baile Atha Cliath - Ford of the settlement of the wattles (Dublin)
Baile Birlinn - prop.n., Ballygalley, a coastal village in North Antrim
Baile Caislein - prop.n., Ballycastle, castle town. A town in North Antrim
Baile Clár - prop.n., Bottom Town, Ballyclare, a settlement in North Antrim
Baile Meannach - prop.n., Town of the Famous Man, Ballymeannoch, a town in North Antrim
Baile Noir - prop.n., East Town, Ballynure, a crossroads in North Antrim, a suburb of Ballyclare.
Baile mór - n.m., a city (modern - there were no cities in the ancient Gaedhil)
Bailtean - n.m.pl., towns, villages, townships
Bainne - n.m., milk
Báird - n.m.pl., poets, storytellers
Bàis - n.m., passing, death
Baíthaich (Scottish, also Sabhall, Irish - scioból) - nm., a barn
Balach (Gille) - n.m., a fellow, a boor, a young man, a boy, often used in praise of prowess
Ball - adj., stained
Ball - n.m., a member (of a society), an article (of clothing), a spot or place, an object (of fun, ridicule, etc.), a stripe (of cloth, tartan, etc.)
Balla - nm., a wall
Ballach - n.m., spotted, speckled
Balle (Baile, Bally) - n., place, town, village
Ballymeannoch - prop.n., Town of the Famous Man
Ban (bhan) - gen.pl.n., women, womens’
Bán - adj., pale, white, fairhaired, squeamish. Also, vacant, waste (land), untilled
Bán - n.m., left side of a furrow.
Banais - n.f., a wedding
Banais Righe - v., coronation, marriage of the king to the land, to the people and to the earth goddess
Banarach - n.f., a dairy maid
Banbh - prop.n., Town of Banff in Buchan
Bann - n.m., 1. deed, bond, contract, formal agreement 2. the hinge of a door, a keystone
Bann Dubh - black bond, oath sworn by the Bohuntin MacDonalds against the Keppoch MacDonalds in 1663
Bansidh (banshee) - n., white fairy, female fairy, troubled spirit
Barail (baraile, baralach) - nf., an opinion
Bard - n., poet, tutor
Bárr (Barra) - n.m., top, point, tip, end, extremity; also a crop, a helmet
Barr - v., crop, top
Bárr nan Tórr - Tip of the Mound, Torr Head, a point in northeast Antrim.
Barrachd - n.f., superiority, excellence
Bás (am bás, ábháis) - n.m., adv., death, demise
Básaich (á básachadh) - v., die
Bassiores n’ parentela (Scots, Lallans) - n., lower kin, clan peasants
Bata - nm., staff, stick
Bata (Báta) - nm., a boat (Old Norse - Bàtar)
Batail (am batail, ábhatail) - n.m., military unit, battle, battalion
Batarsaigh - n.m., lit. "Bitch Boat" from old Norse, a boat with poor sailing qualities
Bawn - n., (Irish) cattle fort, a fortified enclosure surrounding a castle or tower house
Beadle - n., (Scots, Lallans) church officer responsible for Bible
Beag (Bige, Beg, Lugha) - adj., small, little, short, diminutive, disagreeable, trifling
Beagan (Began) - n.m., a little, a few
Bealach - n.m., gap, pass, mountain gorge, breach in a wall, gate, way, road, route, method
Bealach Fhionnghail - the way of the fair Highlander
Bealach na h-airde - Pass of the Cape
Beal-a-faula - (Colloquial Irish) Pass of Concealment
Bealltain (Beltain) - n., Celtic festival of the sun, Gaelic holiday, May 1
Bean mhath - nf., a good wife
Beanntan - n.pl., mountains, hills
Beannachd - n.m., a benediction, a blessing
Beàrn - n.f., a small gap or breach, a fissure. v. - notch, hack
Beart - n.m., deed, act, engine, instrument (á bheart e - the instrument of)
Beartach - adj., rich
Beartaich - adv., riches
Beatha - n.f., life, food, livelihood; welcome, salutation, biography
Bedwyr - Brythonic pagan one-armed war god.
Beinn (Scots, Lallans -Ben) - n.f., a mountain, a hill, a peak
Beinn a’ Beithir - prop.n., Mountain of the Thunderbolt, a prominent peak in Appin
Beinnachaidh - prop.n., Mountain of The Fields (Benachie), Aberdeenshire, overlooking the site of the 1411 Battle of Harlaw
Beinn Bheag a' bh-Faodha - prop.n., Little Mountain of the Ford - Benbecula. An island in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Beinn Buidhe - prop.n., Pleasant Mountain. A peak on the Isle of Eigg.
Beinn Buirbe (Benburb) - prop.n., Fierce Mountain. Alternate name of the "caput" of the ÓNeills of Tyrone. (See also Drum Crù)
Beinn Cruachan - prop.n., Mountain of the Hip (conical hill)
Beinn nam Gaoithe Fheall - Mountain of the Treacherous Wind (Goat Fell). A mountain on the Isle of Arran.
Beinn Leideach - Strong Mountain, (Ben Ledi) overlooking Cardross, Dunbartonshire, on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde.
Beinn Nebhis - Venomous Mountain. Highest point in Britain, located in Lochaber..
Beir (Breith, Beirsinn) - irr. v., bear, bring forth
Beir (Air) - v., catch, seize
Beithir - n.f., 1. a prodigiously large serpent, 2. thunderbolt, 3. a very large skate, 4. a bear
Bel (Báal) - n., (Old Irish) sun god
Beltain (Beltaine, Bealltain) - n., pagan Celtic festival of the sun, Gaelic holiday, May 1
Bena - adj., good
Betagh - n., Irish servile class of landless peasants
Beul - n., mouth
Beulaobh (Air) - prep., in front of
Bha - v., past, was, were
Bheannachd - n., blessing
Bheatha - n., life
Bheil - v., am, is, are
Bheir - v., will give
Bhitheas (bhios) - rel. v., will be
Bho (O) - prep., from
Bhos (a bhos) - adv., down, below
Bhra`igh - n., high ground
Bhuam (Bhuat) - prep. pron., from me
Bhuel - excl., well!
Bhuie - excl., good!
Bhur (Ur) - poss. pron., your
Bi - v., be
Biadh (Bidhe) - nm., food
Biachlàr - n.m., menu
Bian - n.m., hide, pelt
Bidean nam Bian - prop.n., Mount of the Hide
Bileadh - adj., pleated or lipped.
Binn (Binne) - adj., sweet, melodious
Birlinn - n.f., a galley, particularly a small Highland galley of fewer than 24 oars, a pleasure or cargo galley of any size
Bith (Air bith) - n.f., v.n., existence, being, world, spirit, temper
Bith - n.m., gum, tar
Bith - adv., quiet
Bithinn - subj. v., would be
Blár (Blair) - n.m., a field, moor, clear level space, a plain, battlefield, a battle
Blár (Blair) - adj., white faced, having a white spot in the face
Blár an Deabhaidh - Field of the Skirmish
Blár Chùil Lodain - n.m., Field of The Hollow of The Puddles. 1746 Battle of Culloden
Blár na Leine - n., field of shirts, 1544 battle between Clan Donald and Clan Fraser
Blár na Páirc - Field of the Park, 1491 battle where the MacKenzies defeated the MacDonalds of Sleate
Blár Traigh Ghruineart - The Battle Of Gruineart Strand
Blath - adj., warm
Bliadhna - n.f., a year, annual (With numerals from 11 to 19, often "bleidhinn," cóig bleidhinn deug - fifteen years)
Bliadhnachan - nf.pl., years
Bo (Boin) - nf., a cow
Bodach - n.m., 1. a carl, an old man, a churl or niggardly fellow, 2. A hobgoblin, a spectre, 3. Churlishness, meanness of spirit
Bodaich - n.m.pl., carls, old men, churls, etc.
Bodh - one aspect of the trinitarian pagan Celtic goddess Morrigan
Boin (Boinin) - nf., a calf
Bochd (Bochda) - adj., poor
Boidheach (Boidhche) - adj., pretty, beautiful
Boineid - n.f., a bonnet, a cap
Boinne - n.m., a drop, a current, a racing stream
Bolg (also Poc) - n., bag
Borb (Buirbe) - adj., fierce
Borb (Buird) - nm., a table, board
Bothan - n.m., a primitive dwelling, a hut, a booth, a tent
Bothan Malacleit - Tribute Ridge Cottage
Bo Winda Banna - prop.n., White Cow Goddess, a pagan Celtic deity
Brach - n.m., a bear
Bradan - nm., a salmon
Brae - n., hillside
Bráighid - n.f., a pair of hems, a thief’s collar, a noose
Brais - adj., brash, too hasty or forward
Bráitherachas - n.m., brotherhood, friendship, partiality
Bráitherachas Phoblacht na hÉireann - Irish Republican Brotherhood
Brat - n.m., (Old Irish) cloak (Latin - Sagum)
Brat - adj., bright
Bratach - n., flag, banner
Bratach Bán - White Flag of the MacAedh
Bratach ná Alba - Banner of Scotland
Bratach Sith - Fairy Flag of the MacLeods
Brath, gu brath - adv., for ever
Brathair (Brathar) - n.m., brother
Brathwick - (Norse) n., Broad Bay
Breab - v., kick
Breac (bric) - n.m., a trout
Breac (brice, brecc) - adj., spotted, speckled, freckled
Breacan - n.m., tartan, checkered, plaid
Breacbeannachd - name, lit. spotted blessing. The Moneymusk Reliquary reputed to have contained the relics of Colm Cille as they were transported from Iona to Dunkeld, and afterward carried before the Scottish host as they went into battle.
Bréifne - prop.n., Breffney
Breith - n.f., judgement, decision, sentence
Breith - n.m., act of bearing, seizing, carrying away, catching
Breitheamh (Brehon, Brieve) - n.m., jurist, law giver, one trained in the law, clan judge
Breitheimh - n.m.pl., judges
Breithimh - n.f.pl.., judgements
Bretha - n., (old Irish) a law tract, a law brief.
Bretha Nemed - Nemed’s brief, 8th century Irish law tract
Bretunnach (Braetann) - n., British Celt, Briton
Breug (Breige) - nm., a lie
Bride - contraction of Brighide, St Bridget(‘s day), Candlemas
Brieve - n., (Scots, Lallans) a judge
Brigit - prop.n., (old Irish) pagan Celtic goddess associated with festival of Imbolc, February 1
Bris (Briseadh) - v., break
Briste - v., adv., adj., broken, bankrupt, insolvent, bruised
Broch - n.m., 1st Century round stone fortified house found in Alba, the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetland
Brodick - (Scots) n., Broad Bay
Brog (a' bhro'g, na bro'ige) - nf., a shoe
Brogan - pl.n.f., shoes
Bròn - n.m., mourning, sorrow, wailing, weeping, grief, lamentation
Brònach - adj., sad, mournful, melancholy, grievous, sorrowful, tragic; mean, pathetic
Bruach - n.m., a bank, brink, a border, edge, steep
Bruach Sheáin - Shane’s Border, a village in North Antrim
Brugh - n.m., a large house, a tumulus, a dwelling of fairies.
Brugh nam Bhoinne - Big Fairy House of the Currents, aka Home of the Ladybirds
Buachaill (Buachaille) - nm., a shepherd, herdsman, guardian, protector
Buachaille Eite Mhór - prop. n., The Great Guardian of Etive, a mountain bordering Glencoe Buachaille nan Eilannan - Protector of the Islanders
Buachaille nan Eilannain - Protector of the Islanders
Buada - n., (old Irish) fortune, cache, wealth
Buadh - n.f., an attribute, quality, virtue, power, faculty.
Buaidh - adv., victory
Buaigh - v., win
Buaigh ar - v., adv., defeat
Buaile - nf., enclosure, milking place
Buaile Achadh Gréine - Enclosure of the Plain of the Sun (also known as "the piper’s stones")
Buaireas - n.m., tumult, an uproar, confusion, disturbance, trouble, ferment
Buaireasach - adv., annoying, disturbing, turbulent, tumultuous, provoking
Buanna - n.m., a hired soldier, a mercenary become a parasite, an idler, a straggler
Buannachan - n.m.pl., (Scottish) hired soldiers, champions billeted on the people at will
Buannachd - n.f., tribute, benefit, profit, gain, emolument, the right to forage and live off the countryside, levy of rations and goods from the local populace
Búcla - n.m., buckle
Buidhe - adj., yellow, golden haired, fair, grateful, good, pleasing
Buidhe Chonnaill - yellow plague, yellow death, bubonic plague
Buille - n.m., a stroke, blow, a knock
Buille Abhainn - prop.n., River of the Blows, in northern Co. Roscommon
Buille air á bhuille - blow for blow
Buillean - n.m., revenge
Buillean an diugh tuiream am maireach, a Cineal Domhnuil! - Revenge today and mourning tomorrow, Clan Donald!
Buirbe - n.f., turbulence; a fierce, boisterous temper; boisterousness; rage, fury; ferocity; barbarity
Bùire (Buireadh) - n.m., act of roaring, a rutting place of deer, burst of grief, a wailing
Bulla - n.m., a bowl, ball, also a papal bull (Irish), a bull’s eye (Irish)
Bullaun (Irish) - n.m.pl., bulls eyes, Irish equivalent of Highland "croichticainn" or cup marks.
Bun - n.m., 1. root or source, 2. a stock or supply, 3. bottom or mouth, 4. a stump, 5. dependence, trust, confidence
Bun Abhann Duine - Mouth of the Brown River - Cushendun
Bun na Habhainn - Mouth of the River
Bun na Mairgie - Mouth [of a River] of Pity
Burn - n., stream, creek
Buth (Butha) - nf., a shop
Buthan (Buthannan, Buithean) - nf.pl., shops
Cabhag - n.f., hurry, haste
Cach - indef.pron., the rest, the others
Cach-a-cheile - indef.pron., one another
Cadal - n.m., sleep, slumber (tha e ‘na chadal - he is sleeping)
Caengail - n., necktie
Caer - n., heart, center, nest
Caerlaverock - prop.n., Lark’s Nest, castle and seat of the Maxwells in Galloway
Caer Llywelydd - prop.n., (Welsh) City of Carlisle in Cumbria (Roman town of Luguvalium)
Cahanagh - adj., adv., warlike
Cai - Brythonic pagan river god.
Caidil (Cadal) - v., sleep
Caileach - n.m., cock
Cáileachd - n.f., endowments, energy, ability
Caileag (Caileige) - n.f., a little girl, a lassie
Caile Dhaoine - (Latin - Caledonii) men of ability, spearmen, dominant tribe and "coicidh" of northern Alba during the Roman era
Cailein - name, The Energetic, The Able. Colin
Cailleach - n.f., a veiled one, a nun, an old woman, the last handful of standing corn on a farm
Caillte - v., adj., lost
Caima - adj., crooked
Caimile’ir - n., crook, cheat
Caimin - n., shepherd’s crook (Irish)
Cain (Conveth, Wayting) - n., (old Irish) rent paid to clan consisting of first fruits
Cáin - adj., white, fair,
Cainnech (Irish - Choinnigh) - name, prop.n., Fair One. A flame, a light. (Scottish) Kenneth or Canice
Cainnech Calma - Kenneth the Hearty (mac Alpine)
Cainneal - n.f., a candle
Cairdean - nm.pl., friends
Cairn (Cárn) - n.m., boulder, rockpile, heap of stones used as a monument, also a rocky hill or mountain
Cairn Cormach - Cormach’s Heap, The Brewer’s Heap. A mountain in North Antrim
Cairn na Burgh - City of Boulders
Cairn na Cúl Chum Éire - Cairn of Back toward Ireland. Legendary cairn raised on Iona by Colm Cille.
Caireal (Coirioll) - n.m., noise
Cais - v., twist, twine
Caisleán (Irish)- n.m., castle
Caisleán Aghalard - prop.n., Castle unready for War, "caput" of the MacDonnells of Mayo from 1399
Caisleán Bhaile Átha An Troim - prop.n., Castle of The Village of The Serviceable Ford, Trim Castle, County Meath. Built by Hugh de Lacey beginning in 1172, it was the largest Norman castle in Ireland.
Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath - prop.n., The Castle of The Settlement of the Ford of the Hurdles - Dublin Castle
Caisleán Beinn Buirbe - prop.n., Turbulent Peak (Benburb) Castle, "caput" of the ÓNeills of Tyrone (See also Drum Crù)
Caisleán Cámus Rhuaidh - prop.n., Red Bay Castle. Bisset/MacDonnell fortress in the Glens of Antrim
Caisleán Carragh - prop.n., Castle of the Monument, 16th Century tower house built by Shane ÓNeill in Cushendun, Antrim
Caisleán Credi - Castle (temple) of belief, Scone, also 728 battle site
Caisleán Eis Geiphtine - prop.n., Castle of the Cataract of A Hundred Fires, Askeaton Castle, principal residence of the Fitzgerald earls of Desmond from 1348
Caisleán Mhagh Nuadhat - prop.n., Castle of The New Swollen Plain, Maynooth Castle, County Kildare, 15th Century Seat of the Fitzgerald earls of Kildare
Caisleán Riabhach - prop.n., Gray Castle. Caput of the ÓNeills of Clandeboye at Castlereagh.
Caisleán Ruaidh - prop.n., Red (Roode) Castle, Rathlin Island, a fortress of the MacDonalds
Caisteal (Scottish) - n.m., castle, garrison, tower, turreted mansion
Caisteal Achalladhar - prop.n., Castle but for the famous slaughter, Achallader Castle, built in Glen Lyon by Campbell of Glenorchy in 1590 and destroyed by MacDonald of Glencoe after the MacDonald victory at The Battle of Killiecrankie.
Caisteal Ardtorrnish - prop.n., Castle Atop This Mound, Morven. Principal residence of Donald, VIII Lord of The Isles.
Caisteal Aros, prop.n., Castle of Habitation, Isle of Mull. Principal residence of Alexander, IX Lord of The Isles.
Caisteal Buireadh - prop.n., Roaring Castle, Castle Borve. The primary Clanranald stronghold in the Western Isles until 1708.
Caisteal Cairnburgh - prop.n., City Of Boulders, a MacLean castle in the Treshnish Isles.
Caisteal Chamuis - prop.n., Castle of the Shallow Bays A castle of the Sleate MacDonalds on the Sleate Peninsula.
Caisteal Claidh - prop.n., Castle of The Trench, Fraoch Eilean, principal fortress of Somhairle mac Gillebride
Caisteal Géillean - prop.n., Castle of the Jaws (Gylen Castle) a property of the MacDougalls on the Isle of Kerrera.
Caisteal Glamhus - prop.n., Castle of the Vale (Glamis Castle)
Caisteal Inbhirlochaidh - prop.n., Castle Beside The Lochy (Inverlochy Castle), was built by the Comyns c. 1270.
Caisteal Inbhirgàradh - prop.n., Castle Beside The Garden, Invergarry Castle, "caput" of The MacDonells of Glengarry
Caisteal Innis Chonaill - prop.n., Peaceful Isles Castle, "caput" of Cailein Mhór Campbell, 1st knight of Loch Awe in 1280.
Caisteal Mhaol - prop.n., Bare Castle, "Caput" of the MacKinnons, Dunakin, Skye
Caisteal nan Choin - prop.n., Castle of The Dogs, Morvern, a property of Clan Donald.
Caisteal Ormacleit - prop.n., My Rocky Eminence. 18th Century Clanranald castle on South Uist.
Caisteal Suibhne - prop.n., Happy Castle, Castle Sween, caput of Cineal MhiccSuibhne in Knapdale
Caisteal Tairbeart - prop.n., Tarbert Castle, Kintyre
Caisteal Tioram - prop.n., Castle of Fair Weather, Dry Castle. "Caput" of Clanranald, Moidart
Cáite? - inter., where?
Cáite bheil? - Where is?
Cáite bheil an ath gháirdean? - Where is the next strongest?
Calliagh - n., witch
Calma (cróga, crua, miotalach) - adj., hardy, brave, valiant, thick-set, brawny, powerful, strong
Calma - n.m., a pillar, a thick-set stout-built person, a prop.
Calp - n.m., specific tribute. The best 8th of cattle or other livestock paid to the chief at the succession of heirs. An inheritance tax.
Calpa - n.m., the calf of the leg, the shaft of an arrow, a rivet nail, the principal at interest
Calpich (Calp) - n.m., tribute, payment to a chief, "the best eighth" in cattle, or other livestock paid to the chief at the succession of heirs
Calum (Caluim) - n.m., hardness on the skin (name - rendered in English as Malcolm)
Calum Caol MacMhuirich - Slender Malcolm MacMhuirich
Calvach (Toirdhealbhach, Turlough, Tearlagh) - name, Charles
Cam - adj., crooked, twisted
Camm - adj., n.m., one eye (empty eye socket)
Cámus - n.m., a convex shape, an indentation, a mold for making bullets, a shallow bay
Cámus Ardtalla - n.m., Bay Above The Hall, Islay.
Cámus nan Ghall - Bay of the Strangers, Loch Linnhe, Ardgour
Canna (Old Irish - Cann) - n.m., a can, a container
Caoin - adj., kind, tender; seasoned as hay, corn, etc.
Caoin - n.f., the face, right side of cloth, surface
Caol (Caolle) - adj., thin, slender, small, narrow
Caol (Kyle, Chumhann) - n.m., a narrows; a narrow strait, a sound, a firth, a glen, etc (pl. - Caoil, Caoiltean)
Caol Airsaigh - The Sound of Our Pregnant Bitch. Waters between Moidart and Isle of Eigg
Caor - n.f., a berry, rowan, rowan berry
Caora (Caorach) - nf., a sheep
Caoraich - nf.pl., sheep
Caorann (Irish - Caorthann) - n.f., rowan tree, rowan berries, the wood of the rowan tree
Capall - n.f., a mare, in some places a horse, a colt
Caput - n.m., chief place, seat, capital
Car - n.m., a friend, agreement, bond
Car - prep., during, for the space of
Car - n.m.gen., a turn, a twist, a bend, meandering
Carach - adj., deceiving, deceitful
Caraid - n.m., a friend
Cárn (Cairn) - n.m., boulder, rockpile, heap of stones used as a monument, also a rocky hill or mountain
Cárn Aonghais Arannaich - Angus of Arran’s Cairn
Cárn nah-Oighre - The Cairn of the Young Heir
Carrach - adj., warty, pimpled, freckled, scorbutic, itchy, mangy, having an uneven surface
Carrageen - n., Iceland moss
Carragh - (Irish) adj., scarred, scabbed
Carragh - (Scottish) n.m., an erect stone, raised as a monument, a monument, a pillar
Carraig - n.f., a rock, a cliff, a rock jutting into the sea serving as a quay or fishing station, a headland.
Carraig Fergus - Rock of Fergus. A famous town and castle in North Antrim. Carrickfergus.
Carraig nan Siùire - prop.n., The Rocks of The Sisters, Carrick on Suir, Old Bridge, Co. Tipperary. A rapids in the River Suir.
Cárson? - inter., why? wherefore?
Cas (Coise) - nf., a foot, a shaft
Cas Chrom - nm., foot plow
Casg - v. tr., stop, quench, staunch, prevent, silence
Casgadh - n.m., stopping, staunching
Casgair - v.t., butcher, slaughter
Casgairt - n.m., massacre, slaughter
Cashel - n., (old Irish) stone house, usually built without mortar of corbeled stone.
Cashel - prop.n., ancient "caput" (seat)of the kings of "Muma" (Munster)
Cat (Chat) - n.m., a cat
Cataibh - prop.n., Sutherland
Cath - n., cross, crossier, battle, conflict
Cathach - n.m., a warrior, warlike, a reliquary carried into battle
Cathach Cholm Cille - reliquary of Saint Columba. aka The Fighting One or Battle Book. Reliquary of the O'Donnells and oldest remaining Irish book
Cathair (Cathrach) - (Scottish) nf., a chair
Cathair - prop n., (Irish) City of Cork
Cathan - n.m., wild goose. Also yarn on the warping machine.
Cathaoir - n., chair, throne,
Cathaoir ollamhnachta - chair of ollamhship
Cathbárr - n.m., battle helmet
Cath Buaidh - Battle Victory, symbol of the Kindred of St Columba, heraldic crest of the MacDonalds and others
Cath-Dath - Battle Color
Cath Droma Deirg Blathuug - Battle of the Ridge of the Red Flowers
Cath Maigh Tuireadh - Battle of the Boastful Death Song - Moytura
Cathraichean - nf.pl., chairs
Cé - n., the earth, also cream, milk
Céad (Aonú, Céud) - adj., first (the first day - an chéad la)
Ceangall (Ceangal) - v., tie, bind
Ceann (Cinn) - n.m., head, point; summit, end, beginning, limit; period, expiration, extremity; genius, ingenuity; chief, master, commander, attention; headland; hilt; subject of discourse
Ceann A Deas Na Hearadh - South Head of Harris
Ceannaich (Ceannach) - v., buy, bought
Ceann Cath - n.m., battle leader, captain
Ceann (Cineil) - n.m., chief of kin
Ceann Coradh - head of the river crossing, palace of Brian Boru on the River Shannon also known as "The Crossing Place of the Race of Man."
Ceann-Feadhna - n.m., high chief, great lord, leader of a host
Ceann Garbh - Rough Summit, highest point on the Isle of Texa, burial site of Ranald MacIain, progenitor of Clanranald.
Ceann Loch A Linnhe (Scots - Kinlochaline) - Head of the Loch of the Pool
Ceannlochcaolisphort - head of the port of the little bay
Ceann Mhór - n.m., great chief, title given to Malcolm III, King of Scots
Ceann Tighe - n.m., chieftain
Ceanntir - n., headland, Kintyre
Ceap - n.m., a last, a clog or stumbling block, the stocks, a snare
Ceap - v., intercept, snare, stop, obstruct
Ceapach (Scots, Lallans - Keppoch) - n.f., 1. plot of land, trunks of trees, a garden, 2. founder, foundation
Cearc (Circe) - nf., a hen
Cearr - adj., wrong
Ceathairne (Irish - Kerne) - n.m., yeomanry, men fit for war, peasantry
Ceathramh - nu., adj., the fourth
Ceileir - v., warble, sing sweetly
Ceileireach - adv., chirping, musical
Ceileireadh - adv, warbling
Ceileiriche - n.m., A Warbler
Ceilt - (Old Irish) screening or concealment, thought to be the origin of the word "kilt."
Ceithir (Ceathair) - nu., adj., four
Celi - (Middle Irish) n., servant
Celi Dé - (Middle Irish) Servants of God, or Culdees. Religious order created in Ireland in the 8th Century.
Cellach - prop.n., Celestine
Cenel (old Irish, also Cineil) - n., (modern Gaelic - cineal) clan, tribe, kin
Ceo (Ceotha) - nm., mist
Ceol (Ciull) - n.m., music
Ceol-bhinneas (Binneas) - n.f., melody
Cernunnos - n.m., pagan Celtic deity worshiped in Alba, the horned one
Cett - nf., daisy
Ceud (an ceud, a' ceud) - nu., adj., the first
Ceud - nu., adj., a hundred
Cha - neg.part., not
Chadich - n., shore
Chadich ile - n., shore land
Chaidh - pret. of theirig, go
Chailein - prop.n., Colin
Chanain - n., canon, clergyman
Chaolais - n., strait
Chattan - nm.pl., cats
Cheana (Mar tha) - adv., already, lit. as it is
Cheile (Le cheile) - adv., together
Chi - v., fut.of v. faic, see
Chinnidh - n., lit. children, tribe, clan
Chinntire - n., Kintyre
Chlanna Nan Conthigibh (Scots dialect) - Sons Of The Hounds, Clan Cameron
Chlanna nan conthigibh a sós gheibh sibh féol - sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh - ancient slogan of Clan Cameron
Chlaon - v., stumbling
Chnagaidh - adj., crooked, twisted, knarled
Cho - conj., adv., as, so
Choinnigh (Scottish - Cainnech) - name, (Irish) The Fair One. Kenneth or Canice
Chomaire - adv., confluence, joining
Chomhlachaidh - n., conference
Chonaill - adv., peaceful, homey
Chonnaill - nm., plague, death
Chriosd - prop,n., Christ
Chrom - nm., plow
Chuaia -v., did hear
Chuireas - v., rel. fut. of v. cuir, put
Chum - prep., to, toward
Chum - conj., for the purpose of, in order that
Chum - prep., to, toward, for the purpose of, in order that
Chunnaic - v., did see
Churaich (Corachl) - nm., coracle, small 4 oared boat made of wicker and hides Cia mar? - inter., how?
Cia meud? (Cia mheud?) - inter., how many?
Ciad - nu. adj., a hundred
Ciall (Ceille) - nf., sense, understanding
Ciar - adj., swarthy, dark, sable, dun, roan, brown; also the dusk, gloominess
Ciaran - n.m., a swarthy man
Cic - v., kick
Ciche - adv., kicks
Cill an Ailean - prop.n., Killinallan, Church of the Green Meadow in northern Isla
Cille Chiaráin - prop.n., (Scots Kilkerran) Church of the Dark Men, now Campbelltown
Cille Choinnigh - prop.n., Kilkenny, church of Kenneth or Canice
Cille Chuimein - Memorial Church (later Fort Augustus)
Cill Daltain - prop.n., Kildalton Chapel, The Church of the Foster Child in eastern Isla
Cille - n.f., church
Cille Airne - prop.n., Killarney, church of the sloe (small wild black plum)
Cille Chiaran - prop.n., Church of the Dark Man. Located in the Rhinns of Islay and said to have been founded by Colm Cille.
Cille Choirill - prop.n., Church of St Cairell
Cille Chuimein - Memorial Church
Cille Dara - prop.n., Second Church. Kildare,
Cille Munnu (Scots-Lallans - Kilmuns), n.m.pl., church buildings, churches
Cille nan Ailean - Church of the Green Plain
Cille Nhaomh Olcan - Saint Olcan’s Chapel. Early church on the shore of Lough Neagh in North Antrim.
Cille Nhaomh Oran - Saint Oran's Chapel. Early church on Iona.
Cine - n., race, tribe, mankind
Cine Cora - (Irish - Kincora), crossing place of mankind, palace of Brian Bóru on the River Shannon
Cineadh Scuit saor an fine, Mun budh bréag an fháisdine, Mar a fuighid an liagh-fháil, Dlighid flaitheas do ghabhail - The Scots shall brook that realm as native ground, if weirds fail not, where’er this chair is found. Prophesy concerning the Lia Faill.
Cineal (Also Cinneadh. Scots, Lallans - Chlann, Old Irish - Cenéle) - n.m., offspring, clan, kin, tribe, children, surname, kindred
Cineal Aedh Buidhe - Children of Yellow Haired Hugh. Clan ÓNeill of Clandeboye & Lecale.
Cineal Alasdair ua Ceanntir - Children of the Bull Calf of the Headland. Clan MacAlister of Loup.
Cineal Andrias - Children of Fearchar Mac-an-tsagairt, Abbot of Applecross. Clan Ross
Cineal Artair na tir a chladich ile - Children of Arthur of the shore land, Clan MacArthur
Cineal Cholla - Children of Colla (Uais), High King of Ulaidh
Cineal Dubhghlas - Dark Gray's Children, Clan Douglas
Cineal Eanruig - Children of the Injured Bird. Henderson, MacKendrick or MacHenry of Glencoe.
Cineal Gabhrán - Children of the Garrulous One, aka Children of the Wanderers
Cineal Iain Abrach - Children of John of Lochaber, aka Iain Ogh Fraoch (Young Heather John). Clan MacDonald of Glencoe
Cineal Ian Mhór - Children of James The Elder. MacDonald of Islay & Kintyre, aka MacDonnell of Dun Naibhig & The Glens, often referred to as Clan Donald South.
Cineal Ghille Mhuire - Children of the Servant of the Virgin Mary. Clan Gilmore or Gilmer.
Cineal Greumach - Children of the Shoemaker, Clan Graham
Cineal Leabhar Uisge - Children of the Long Water. Clan Lennox
Cineal MacBheatha - Children of the Son of Life, MacBeth, also Meigleathadh or MacAnléigh - physician, Beaton or Bethune
Cineal MacDubh-shithe - Son of the Black Peace or Son of the Dark Fairy (MacDuffie, MacPhee or MacFie and known as MacGuffie or MacHaffie in Galloway.
Cineal MacFhionghuin - Son of the Fair Born, Clan MacKinnon
Cineal MacGrioghair - Children of the Son of the Tease, Clan MacGregor traditionally descend from "Griogar" (the tease), son of King Alpine in the 8th Century and known as Gregor of The Golden Bridles
Cineal MacGuadhre - Children of the Son of the Noble. Clan MacQuarrie Of Ulva And Gometra.
Cineal MacLachlan - Children of the Son of the Viking
Cineal MacMathghamhna - Children of the Son of the Good Yearling Calves (Stupid People). Name perhaps given to Clan MacMahon by their Ui Neill overlords..
Cineal MacMathghamhainn - n.m., Children of the Son of the Bear. Probable actual name of Clan Mahon
Cineal MacMhaolain - MacMhaolain - Son Of the Tonsured aka MacGhillemhaoil - Son of the Boy Priest, Clan MacMillan
Cineal MacNeachdainn - Children of the Son of Nechtan, descended from Nechtan Mhór mac Dereli and the moraers of Moray. Clan MacNaughten
Cineal MacNeil - Children of the Son of Nial, descendants of Aodh ÓNeill, 11th Century King of the north of Ireland. Held the Isle of Barra under the superiority of the lords of The Isles. Clan MacNeill of Barra.
Cineal MacRabhairt - Children of the Son of the Springtide. Clan Robertson of Struan
Cineal MacSgian - Children of the Son of the Dagger. Clan Skene.
Cineal MacShuibhne - Children of the Son of Suibhne. Clan MacQueen of Corybrough.
Cineal MacUalraig - Children of the Son of Ulrick, Clan Kennedy of Lochaber
Cineal ui Cleirigh - Children of the Noble Clergy, Clan Cleary
Cineal Mág Uidhir - Children of the Dun Ridge or district jesters, local comedians, humorous bards. Clan Maguire.
Cineal mo chinnidh mi - the children of my tribe
Cineal na Breitheamh - Children of the Judge or Breive. Morrison of Habost.
Cineal ÓBroin - Children of the Descendants of Bran, Clan ÓByrne
Cineal ÓCathan - Children of the Descendants of The Wild Goose, Clan ÓCahan, Kane, Keane or ÓCain
Cineal ÓCeallaigh Ui Máine - Descendants of Kelly of the Noble Mania
Cineal ÓDómhnaill - Children of the Descendants of World Ruler, ÓDonnell
Cineal ÓMórdha - Children of the Descendants of The Magnificent One, Clan ÓMore
Cineal Ros - Children of the Wooded Promontory. Clan Rose of Kilravock.
Cineal Ruairidh - Children of The Redhead, descendants of Ruairidh (fl.1210), second son of Ranald, 2nd of The Isles and progenitor of Clan MacRory.
Cineal Stillbhard - Children of the Steward. Clan Stuart or Stewart.
Cineal ua Dhomhnuil nan Eilean - Children of the noble World Mighty of the Isles. MacDonald
Cineal ua Duibhne - The Black Clan (Clan Campbell)
Cineal ua Niáll na Tir Eoghan - Children of the Champion of the Land of Owen. ÓNeill of Tyrone.
Cineal Uillin - Children of Uillin. Clan MacQuillin or MacQuillan.
Cineal Uisdein - Children of Hugh. Clan MacDonald of Sleate.
Cinn - v. grow, increase; vegetate, multiply; result from, happen; grow taller
Cinn - n.m.pl., heads
Cinneidigh -Ugly Headed (Kennedy)
Cinnteach (Cinntiche) - adj., sure, certain
Ciobair - n.m., a shepherd
Ciotach - left handed
Ciod? (Gu de? De?) - inter., what?
Cion (Gean, Gradh, Gra', Searc) - n., love
Ciotach - left handed
Cis - n.f., tax, tribute, impost, subjection
Cis a Mul - Eminence of Tribute
Ciste - n.f., a chest, a coffin, a storage place
Clach (Ail, Cloch) - n.f., a stone, stone weight, a rock, a boulder
Clachain - n.f.pl., stones, rocks, boulders
Clachain Aoraidh - Worship Stones
Clachain Maighdeann H’Uileann - Maidens’ Elbow Rocks. A navigational hazard off the east coast of Antrim
Clachair - n.m., a mason
Clach h’Suibhne - prop.n., Sween’s Stone, crowning stone of the MhiccSuibhne
Clach Leathad - Rocky Slope
Clach Mhicíllean - MacLean’s Stone, Islay
Clach nam Braetann - Stone of the Britons, northwestern border marker of Strathclyde
Cladh (Reilig) - n.m., a trench, graveyard, churchyard, cemetery
Cladh - v., spawn, as fish
Cladh Chiaran - prop.n., Spawn of the Swarthy Men
Cladach -n.m., a shore
Clag (Cloig) - n., bell
Claidh - n., adj., trench
Claidheamh Mhór (Claymore) - n.m., great sword, eight foot long two handed sword used by Gaelic warriors, lit. great trench blade
Claig - n., trench, ditch, moat
Clann (Scots, Lallans, Gaelic - Cineal) - n., children, children of, descendants of
Claoidh - v., cloy, exhaust, overcome with fatigue
Claoidhte - vbl. adj., exhausted with fatigue
Clár - n.m., plank, table, board, bottom of a chest or coffin, stave of a cask, program, lid, flat surface
Clarsach - n., 32 stringed Gaelic harp
Clé (Cli) - adj., left, left handed, slow, awkward, feeble (ar clé - on the left)
Cleas - n.m., trick, craft, feat, stratagem
Cléireach - n.m., cleric, clerk, beadle or church officer
Cleit - n.m., a ridge or reef of sunken rocks, eaves, a rocky eminence, a stone beehive
Cliabh - nm., a creel, also breast, chest
Cliach - n.m., feeble man
Cliath - n., hurdle
Cloch Temhair - prop.n., Tara Stone
Cloiche - adj., stone
Cloigin - n., bell
Cloig theach - Belfry, Bell House, monastic round tower
Cloinne - n., descendants of
Clon - n., Clone, duplicate
Clon - v., Clone duplicate, make, create
Clon Tarbh (Clontarf) - prop. n., the making of bull seals, 1014 Irish battle
Cluain - n.f., intriguing, pacification, quietness
Cluain (Móinéar) - n.f., meadow, a green plain, a bower, a pasture (Cluan - Islay dialect)
Cluainerard - Clonard, Meadow of the Most High, monastery located on the River Boyne in Co. Meath
Cluain-fearta Brenainn - Clonfert, Holy Meadow of Brendan, monastery founded by St Brendan in Co.Galway
Cluain mic Nois - Clonmacnoise, Meadow of Evil Inspiration, monastery on the River Shannon in Co. Offaly
Cluas - n.f., an ear
Cluinn (Cluinntinn) - irr. v., hear
Cnáimh - n.m., a bone
Cnoc (Cnulc,) - n.m., small round hill, a knoll, an eminence
Cnoc á Bráighid - Hill of the Thief’s Collar, execution site on Islay
Cnoc Aingeal - Angel’s Hill (on Iona)
Cnoc an Amhairc - Lookout Hill
Cnoc Araich - Battle Hill
Cnoc Leithid - prop.n., Match Hill. At 1686 feet, the 4th highest point in Co. Antrim
Cnoc na Cloiche (Knocknacloy) - Hill of Stones. 1388 MacDonnell fort in Co. Roscommon
Cnoc nan Aighean - Hill of the Hind (Doe)
Cnoc na Nús (Knocknanuss) - Hill of First Milk (after calving). A battle site in Co. Cork
Cnoc na Sgrioidlaine - Hill of the Screaming. A massacre site on Rathlin Island.
Cnoc n’ Crona - Hill of Harm
Cnoc Órail - Gold Hill, Hill of Gold. A high point in the Glens of Antrim
Cnoc Tuagh (Knockdoe) - Hill of the Axes
Cnoid - n.m., a splendid present
Cnoideart - n.m., (Norse Gaelic) Splendid Present of the Shallow Sea Loch, Scots - Knoidart.
Co ? - inter., pro., who?
Co-Arb - n.m., (Scottish) secular trustee of Celtic Church property (Irish - Erenach, old Irish - Airchinnech)
Cobach - n., (old Irish) duty or tribute of military service to the clan.
Cobhartach - n.m., booty, spoils
Cócaire - n.m. & f., a cook
Cócaireachd - adv., cooking, food preparation
Co-fhlaitheachd (Scottish) - n.m., Republic
Co-fhlaitheachdach (Scottish) - adj., Republican
Cogadh - vbl.,n.m., war, warfare, warring, jibing
Coicidh (Cóiced) - n., province, minor kingdom, in Ireland a "fifth"
Cóig - nu., adj., five
Cóig-deug - number fifteen
Cóigeach - n.f., a hand
Cóigead - number fifty
Cóigeamh - the fifth
Cóignear - nu., n., five persons
Coigreach - n.m., religious relic, a stranger, a guest
Coille - n.f., a wood, forest (fón choill - outlawed)
Coille Chnagaidh - Crooked Wood (Scots, Lallans - Killiecrankie)
Coillteach - n.f., woods, forest, wilds, woodland
Coilltear - n.m., a saunterer, wanderer
Coilltean - n.f.pl., woods
Cóinneach - n.f., bog, moss
Coir (Corach, Coire) - n., adv., right, justice
Coire (Scots, Lallans - Corrie) - n., small hollow in the side of a hill
Coirill - n.f., chirping of birds
Coiste - v., swear (as to take an oath)
Co leis ? - inter.pro., whose
Cólan - n.m., fellow-soldier, companion
Colonsay (Norse) - prop.n., Companion Island, also Saint Columba's Isle
Colin (Culen) - (Gaelic) n.m., (Scots, Lallans) whelp
Coll - n.m., a hazel tree
Colla - name, man of hazel, i.e. a strong man.
Colla Chiotaich - prop.n., Coll The Left Handed (of Keppoch) aka Colkitto.
Colla da Crich - prop.n., The Youngest Colla. Eponymous ancestor of ÓCellaigh ui Maine (Clan Kelly)
Colla mo rún, seachain an Dún! - Coll, my beloved, avoid the castle!
Colla Maol Dubh - Bald , dark Coll (Also known as Colla nan Capull)
Colla Meann - prop.n., Famous Strong Man. Eponymous ancestor of Cineal ÓCearbhaill (Clan ÓCarroll)
Colla nam Bo - Coll of the Cows, Coll MacDonell, 15th chief of Keppoch who served under Dundee in 1688 and who was known for his ability to find MacIntosh hidden cattle.
Colla nan Capull - Coll of the Horses, Captain of the Route from 1555 to 1558
Colla Uais - prop.n., Noble Strong Man. Eponymous ancestor of Cineal Cholla
Collach - n.m., a boar (see Cullach)
Collai - adj., (Irish) sexual
Colleen - nf., girl, unmarried woman
Collop - n.m., a tariff paid by raiders for passing through another clan’s lands.
Colm (Colum, Calum) - (Scots - Colum, Latin - Columba) name, prop.n., Dove
Colm Cille - Dove of the Church, Saint Columba
Comhairle - n.f., advice, counsel, a council, a convocation
Cómhla (Comhla ris) - adv., along with, together, in company with
Cómhla - n.f., door, gate
Comnadh - adv., may help, please help
Comunn - n.m., society, club, company, fellowship, association
Comunn mhanach - n.m., (Scottish) Priory (Irish - Priòireacht)
Con (Chon) - gen.pl. of cu - dogs, hounds
Cónai - nm., dwelling, residence, place of peace, place of security
Cónaigh - v., dwell, reside
Conaire Mhór Riata (aka Conn Cétchathach) - Great Connor, Victorius King, 2nd Century High King of the Irish and progenitor of the kings of Dalriada
Conchobhar mac Nessa - prop.n., Hound of the Spoils (Connor) son of Nessa, 1st Century King of Connacht
Conghlas (Conalas) - n.m., shroud, head bandage (on the dead)
Conlai - Son of Cú Chulainn in the folklore of Skye.
Conn - name, (old Irish) Fiery, Fierce, Flammable, Intense
Connacht - n. (old Irish), Realm of Conn. Also spelled Connaught. Irish coicidh west of the River Shannon, one of the "Five Fifths" of Ireland
Conn Bacach - Drunken Conn. Last great chief of the Clandeboye ÓNeills c.17th Century.
Conn Cétchathach (aka Conaire Mhór Riata) - prop.n., Conn Of The Hundred Battles, 2nd Century High King of the Irish
Conveth - n., support of chief and company when they visited the area one or two days a year, tribute
Cora (Coradh) - n., (modern Irish) Ford, weir, dam, crossing place
Córa - compar.adj., more befitting
Corach (Churaich) - n., coracle, 4 oared boat made of wicker and hides Coradh - n.m., ford, weir, dam, crossing place
Corbel - v., to build dry stone masonry without use of mortar.
Corcaigh - prop.n., Cork, lit. the swamp
Corci - n., oats
Corco - (Old Irish) adj., n., family, sept
Cormach - n.m., a brewer.
Cormac mac Airt - prop.n., 3rd century High King of the Irish
Corp - n.m., corpse, the body
Corrach - adj., steep
Corrie - n.(Scots - Lallans), round hollow in a hillside, often sheltering game
Corrie Bà - Hollow of The Lullaby
Corrie Dho - hillside hollow for two
Corrie Gabhail - Hollow of Spoil
Corrie na Ruaig - hillside hollow of the rout
Corrievrechan (Scots, Lallans) - n., waves, swells, surf, angry seas (Gaelic - Còs A Bhreacan)
Cos - n.f., a foot
Còs - n.m., 1. a sponge, crevice, hole. 2. a cave, a crevice
Còs A Bhreacan - Hole of Custard. A whirlpool at the head of the Sound of Jura (See Corrievrechan)
Cos An Dall - Foot of the Blind (River), Cushendall
Cos An Duinne - Foot of the Brown (River), Cushendun
Cothrom - adj., adv., level, even, balanced, equal, fairness, corresponding, advantage
Cothrom ábhraígh - advantage of the high ground
Craeb - n., (old Irish) branch, limb
Craeb Ruadh - n., lit. "Red Branch," order of warriors who served the Irish kings of Tara
Cragan - n.m., an earthen jar generally used for oil
Craig nan Fhithich - The Raven’s Rock
Craiganairgid - The Craig of Silver Money, aka The Silver Craig. Site of 1519 Battle where Iain, 6th of Ardnamurchan was killed by Donald Galda of Sleate.
Craigeallachie - Craig of the lookout
Crann - n.m., a tree, wood
Crannag - n.f., pulpit, a ship, a boat, cross-trees (of ships), a lake dwelling (Scottish); Crannóc (M.Ir.)
Crannaig - n.f.pl., pulpits, ships, boats, cross-trees, lake dwellings
Crannog - n.m., lit. "young tree." artificial islands built by ancient celts as a defense.
Cranntára - the fiery cross, a beacon, a call to war made of a half burned cross soaked in blood
Cranntáraidh - n.m. plural, fiery crosses
Craobh - n.f., a tree, globules or bells on whisky or any other liquid
Craobh - v., spread, gush out and ramify at the same time
Creach - n.m., loot, plunder, especially stolen cattle
Creag (Creige) - nf., a crag, a rock, a cliff, a precipice, an eminence
Creagan an Fhitich - The Raven’s Rock, motto of The MacDonells of Glengarry
Creagan nan Riochdaill - Crag of the Skeletons
Creagantairbh Beag - Crag of Little Profit.
Créis - v., Grease, n.f., grease, fat
Crich - n., (old Irish) the end.
Cridhe - n.m., heart, dear, center
Crioch - n.f., boundary, frontier, landmark, end, conclusion, close
Crios - n., belt
Criosd - n.m., Christ, our Savior
Criosdaidh - n.m., Christian
Criosdail - adj., Christian
Cro - n.f., blood, gore, death
Cró - n.m., a circle, a fold or pen, a hut
Cró - n.f., the eye of a needle, blood, gore, metaphor for death
Crob - (Old Irish) n.m., hand, claw
Crobhan - the bloody, bloody one (Chróbhain - Islay dialect)
Crobhcan (Croucan) - n.m., anything crooked or bent into ill-formed letter S; a dry, broken bit of peat.
Croi - n., heart
Croich - n.f., a gibbet, gallows or cross, a place of execution
Croichticainn - cup marks known as supreme container for wishing execution
Crois - n.f., a cross, a cross-tree on a ship, a yarn reel
Crois Beag - Little Cross. One of two ancient monastic crosses on the Isle of Eigg.
Crois Mhór - Great Cross. One of two ancient monastic crosses on the Isle of Eigg.
Croi’u’il - adj., hearty, cheerful
Crom - adj., crooked, stooped, bent, drooping
Crom - v., stoop, bend
Cromag - n., shepherd's crook, walking stick (Scottish)
Crònan - n.m., a murmur, a ripple or purl of a stream, the purr of a cat, a croon, a dirge
Cro n’ galnes (Scots) - n., price for killing paid to kin to avoid blood feud Crotach - adj., humpbacked
Crú - n.m., (Irish) a horseshoe
Cruach - n.f., heap, a stack of hay or peats
Cruachan - n.m., the hip, a conical hill
Cruadalach - adv., strength
Crubach (Crubaiche) - adj., lame
Cruic’ is uillt’ is Ailpeinich, ach cuin a thaing Artairich? - The hills and the streams and MacAlpine, but whence came MacArthur?
Cruie - n., hills
Crùisle - n.m., friary
Crùisle Bun Na Mairgie - Mouth of a River (of Pity) Friary
Cruithne - n., native, aborigine
Cruth - n.m., shape, form, appearance, expression of countenance
Cruthach - adj., shapely, handsome, identical, exactly like, resembling
Cruthach - n.m., placenta of a mare
Cruthachadh - n.m., the creation, the universe, act of creating
Cú (pl. - Coin) - n.m., a dog, a hound
Cuach - n.f., a wooden cup, a drinking cup
Cuan - nm., ocean
Cuaran - n., Highland knee boot
Cú Chulainn - n., Culann’s dog (hound), legendary Ulster hero
Cuid - indef.pron., some, certain (ones)
Cuideachd (Mar an ceudna) - adv., also
Cuid-eiginn - indef.pron., some person or persons
Cuide (ri, ris, etc.) - prep., along with
Cuidh - n.f., an enclosure
Cuidh Chattain - prop.n., Chattan’s Enclosure
Cùil - n.f., a corner, a recess, a nook, a niche, a hollow, a depression
Cúil Bacaidh - prop.n., Place of Spades. A village in North Antrim
Cúil Dremne - prop.n., Place of Aspiration, aka Cúl Rath, Cúl Drebene, Cooladrummon, Coleraine
Cuilean (Old Irish - Culén) - n.m., whelp, cub, pup, a darling
Cuimhne - n., memory
Cuimhnich - v., remember, bear in mind, recollect
Cúin (Cuin) - adv., when
Cúin (Cuin) - rel. pron., whence
Cuir (Cur) - v., put, place, lay, set, sow, snow, send, dispatch, send word, lay by, hoard, declare
Cuis - nf., a matter
Cúis - n., a case, a brief
Cúl (Cuil) - nm., the back part of anything
Culaobh - nm., the back, the back parts
Cullach - n.m., a boar; the male of the larger seal; polecat; a stirk, enuch. Also, a stallion, a hero.
Cúl - n.m., the back of anything, tresses
Cúl Rath - prop.n., Behind The Cattle Pen (Coleraine), town in Ulster.
Cumail - n.f., detention, maintenance, keeping, celebrating
Cumal - n., monetary unit, measure of worth, value of bondswoman or of 3 to 4 cows
Cumha - n.m., an elegy, eulogy or poem in praise of the dead, mourning, lamentation, lament
Cumhach - adv., sorrow, weeping
Cumhachd - n.m., power, might, strength, energy, ability, authority, commission, permission, influence
Cumhachdach - adj., powerful, having great sway or influence, mighty, strong, able
Cumhang - irr.adj., narrow
Cuntrie - n., (old Irish) clan lands controled by individual families (septs).
Cupan - nm., a cup
Currach (Curach) - n.m., coracle, a one or two man skiff made of wicker and hides
Curraich - n.m.pl., coracles, skiffs
Curraichd - n., much, linen bonnet worn by married women
Cush - n. (Old Irish) mouth, as of a river
Cymru - prop.n., (Welsh) Wales
Dá (Dha) - prep., to him, to his
Dá - nu., adj., two
Dachaidh - nf., a home
Dad - nm., anything
Dá dhiu gun aon roghainn! - Two choices, no pick!
Dagda - n., (old Irish) pagan Celtic god good for everything
Dàil - n.f., a meeting. Also a portion, a tribe.
Daire (see Doire) - n.m., oak, hull of a boat.
Dál - n.f., lot, fate
Dál - prep.(archaic), of the people (clan, cineal, tuath, tribe) of
Dál Cais - Entwined People. Dalcassians, a tribe of southern Ireland
Dál Cuinn - n., Race of Conn, descendants of Conn Ce’tchathach (Conn Of The Hundred Battles)
Dál Fiatach - lit. Children of the Wild Men, a tuath native to Co. Down
Dál n’Araide - name, Descendants of Cattle Drovers. Ancient tuath in North Antrim.
Dall (Dollie) - adj., blind
Dál n’Araide - tuath native to Co. Antrim
Dalriada - n., kingdom of Irish Scots in western Scotland and northern Ireland
Dál Riata - n., (arch.) Descendants of the Victorious King, aka People of the ridge, Riata’s share, of the tribe of Riata. They are the descendants of Connaire Mhór Riata
Dam - n.m., mill-dam, reservoir.
Damh - nm., an ox, a stag
Damh Féidh Dearg - Red Deer Stag
Dan (Dain) - nm., poem
Daoine - n.pl., men
Daoin Uaisle - n., (Scots Gaelic, Scots) gentlemen, feudal aristocracy, armigers
Daonnan - adv., always
Dara (Darna) - nu., adj., the second
Dath (Dã) - v., n.m., color, tinge, dye
Davach - n., ploughgate, the land that could be plowed by a team of eight oxen in a year, about 92 acres
De (an De) - adv., yesterday
De? - inter.pron., what?
De - prep., of
Dé - n.m., (middle Irish) God, of God
Dé - prep., on, during,
Déabhadh - n.m., a shrinking, drying; small trickling of water, last few drops; a soft place between two lochs Deabhaidh (Deabhadh) - n.m., dispute, skirmish, battle
Deagh - adj., good, excellent
Dealg - n.m., (Old Irish) brooch or pin
Dean (Deanamh) - irr.v., do, make
Deara - n., tears
Dearbh (gu dearbh) - adv., certainly
Dearbhfhorghaill - adv., Seen to be Gaelic, proven Gaelic
Dearbhfhorghaill - nf., given name, Dervorguilla
Dearbhfhorghaill de Galloway - prop.n., (1210 - 1290) daughter of Prince Alan of Galloway and heiress to the Scottish throne, giving her husband, John de Balliol a claim to the succession.
Dearg (Deirge, Dhream, Flann) - adj., red, blood
Deas - n.m., (Scottish) the south, the right hand
Deas - adj., beautiful, right, south, proper, well shaped, handsome, ready, prepared
Dé Céadaoin - (on) Wednesday
Dé Déardaoin - (on) Thursday
Dé Domhnaigh - (on) Sunday
Dé hAoine - (on) Friday
Deich - nu., adj., ten
Deicheamh - nu., adj., tenth
Deidh (an deidh) - prep., adv., after
Deil - n.m., an axle, lathe, sharp iron rod
Deisceart - n., (Irish) South
Deisceartach - adj., Southern
Dé Luain - (on) Monday
Dé Máirt - (on) Tuesday
Deoch (Dibhe) - nf., a drink
Deochan (Deochannan) - nf.pl., drinks
Deophaisten - n., teacher of religion and law (Scot.)
Deóir - n.pl., tears
Deóirid - n.m., a broken hearted, tearful person
Deóiridh - n.m., an exile, a pilgrim, stranger, destitute person
Deór - n.m., an Almoner
Deòrsa - name, George
Derbfhine - n.m., certain kin (descendants of a common great-grandfather), close family.
Des - adj., south
Dé Sathairn - (on) Saturday
Des Muma - prop.n., Desmond, South Munster
Deug - part., teen
Deur - n.m., a drop, a tear
Dewar - n., keeper, guardian
Dewar nam Coigreach - keeper of the relics
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Dha (Do) - num., n., twoDhachaidh (Dachaidh) - n., adv., home, homeward
Dháindeoin - v., gainsay, deny
Dháindeoin co theiradh e! - MacDonald battle cry, "Gainsay who dare"
Dhia - n., God
Dhiom (Dhiot) - prep., off (of me)
Dhomh (Dhuit) - prep., to (me)
Dhonnachaidh - name, Duncan
Dhonvill - name, brown eye
Dhream (Dearg, Deirge) - n., blood
Dhuil - adv., hope
Dhuimhneach - A Campbell (A Dhuimhneacha, Dhuimhneacha, cuimhnichibh úr boineidean! - Campbells, Campbells, mind your bonnets!)
Digh - n.f., conical mound, a rampart; an abode of fairies
Digh Mhór Thallanta - A noted fairy abode in Islay
Dílse - n.f., loyalty, relationship, faithfulness
Diomadh - n.m., discontent, pain
Diomailteach (Diomais) - adj., extravagant, wasteful
Dìomb - n.f., indignation, offense, resentment, displeasure
Dire fine - n., honor price paid to victim's family for murder
Diubh - pp., of them
Diugh (an diugh) - adv., today
Do - poss.pron., thy
Do - prep., to, into
Do - excl., so
Dó (Á Dha) - number two
Dóigh - n.f., method, manner, way, means. Also, village in North Antrim
Dòigh-riaghlaidh Cinneadh - means of ruling the Clan
Doire - n.m., originally an oak grove or a grove generally, a copse, a thicket, a tangle
Doire - prop.n., town of Derry
Dol - n.m., condition, state
Dol (á dol) - v.n., going (á dol air ais - retreating)
Dol am miosad - adv., decline, deterioration, a bad state
Dolméinn - n.m., (old Irish) a portal tomb
Domhan - n.m., the universe, the globe, the whole world
Domhnach - n.m., Sunday, the Sabbath
Dómhnall ~ dubh - n.m. Black Donald. Euphemism for the Devil
Domhnall Ballach - prop.n., Freckled Devil. 2nd Lord of Dun Naibhig & The Glens
Domhnall Odhar mac Alasdair mhic Ghoraidh - Drab Donald, Son of Alexander, Descendant of Gorrie, aka Donald McGorry. Traditional appellation of the progenitor of Siol Ghoraidh.
Domhnuil - ancient Norse name of special significance, world mighty, world ruler, commonly anglicized as Donald
Domhnuil ar Ile - prop.n., World Mighty From Islay, 3rd Of The Isles, progenitor of Cineal ua Dhomhnuil Nan Eilean
Domhnuil Brecc - World Mighty The Freckled, King of Dalriada, k. 641
Domhnuil Gorm Sasunnach - Dark Donald the Saxon, 6th Chief of Sleate
Domhnuil mac’ic Somhairle ar Ile, Righ Innse Gall - World Mighty, grandson of Summer Sailor of Islay, King of the Foreigner’s Isles
Domhnullach (Domhnallach) - n., one of the Donalds
Domhnullaich (Domhnallaich) - n.pl., some of the Donalds, Donalds
Domnach - n.m., Saint
Don - n.m., want, evil, badness (don bidh ort - ill betide thee)
Donbhill - alleged by the Glengarry MacDonells to be a Gaelic word meaning "brown eye." The allegation is unconfirmed in any source that this writer has been able to find.
Donn (nas duinne) - adj., brown, dun, sable, brown-haired; indifferent, bad
Donnachadh - name, Duncan
Donnachadh Reamhar - Fat Duncan, Duncan of Lorne, 4th son of Oengus Mhór and progenitor of Clan Duncan
Dorus - nm., a door
Dorus-árd - n.m., portal
Dorcha - adj., dark
Dram (Drám) - n.m., a dram
Drambhuidhe - prop.n., Good or pleasing Dram, licorice flavored liquor invented by MacDonalds
Draoi (Druidh, Draoidh, Druid) - n.m., generally a scholar, learned person; also specifically a scientist, philosopher, magician, sorcerer, teacher or doctor; a pagan pre-Christian Gaelic priest; a keeper of clan knowledge, secrets or tradition
Drasda (an drasda) - adv., just now
Dréim - n.f., climb, ascent, expectation, aspiration, contention
Dreim - v., climb, ascend, expect, aspire, contend, oppose
Dréimire - n., ladder
Dris - n.f., a thorn, a bramble, a briar
Droch - adj., bad (always precedes the noun)
Drochaid - n.f., a bridge
Druid (Druideadh) - adv., closed, shut
Druidh (Draoi, Draoidh, Druid) - n.m., generally a scholar, learned person; also specifically a scientist, philosopher, magician, sorcerer, teacher or doctor; a pagan pre-Christian Gaelic priest; a keeper of clan knowledge, secrets or tradition.
Druidheimh - n.m.pl., scholars, learned persons, scientists, philosophers, magicians, doctors
Druidte - v., adj., closed
Druim (Drum) - n.m.pl., hills, mountains, heights, a range of hills or mountains
Druim H’Alban - Hills of Alba, aka Alban Backbone or "The Spine of Britain."
Druim Ceit - lit. Four Hills, aka Daisy Hill or Mullagh Hill, Irish site of Dalriadic conference that honored Colm Cille
Druim Thuama - Hills of the Tombs (Drumhome), Columban monastery in Co. Donegal
Drum Crù - (Irish) Horseshoe Hill. One name of the "caput" of the ÓNeills of Tyrone.
Duan - n.f., a poem, a song
Duanaire - n.m., a songster, a bard, a book of poems or ballads, a miscellany
Duanag (Luinneag, Rann) - n.f., an ode, a sonnet, a ditty, a catch, a canto, a little poem
Dubh (Duibhe, Scots - Duff) - adj., black, dark
Dubhghall - n.m., dark haired stranger. Gaelic name for Danish Vikings
Dubhlinn (Dublin) - n., Black-pool
Dubh-luidealach - dark shaggy beast, name of the galley of Gilleasbuig Gruamach, 8th of Argyll
Dubhshithe - n.m., dark fairy (spirit)
Dùghlas - name, Douglas (lit. - dark gray)
Duibh - gen. masc. of dubh
Duibh - pp.pl., to you
Duilich - irr.adj., difficult
Duine - n.m., a man, an individual, landlord,
Duine uasal - n.m., gentleman, lord, aristocracy
Dúisg - adv., awake
Duin (dunadh) - v., close, shut
Duine - nm., a man
Duit - pp., to thee
Dun - n.m., (1) fortress, hill fort, (2) a hill, a heap
Dun Abhartaidh - Fortress of the Feasting or Festivals, Dunaverty
Dun á Bheagan (Dunvegan) - prop.n., Fort of a Few, "caput" of the Tormod MacLeods on Skye
Dun Adhradh - Hill of Worship. A Village in North Antrim. Dunadry.
Dun Aengus - Fort of Angus. A huge pre Celtic stone fort on the Isle of Aran, west of Ireland.
Duncan Achnabreac - Duncan of the pock marks, Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, Covenanter general and Laird of Castle Sween under the 8th Earl of Argyll
Dunchraigaig - prop.n., fort near the craig
Dun Déagh - prop.n., Good or Excellent Town, Earldom and Marquisat of Dundee in Angus
Dun Éideann (Dun Edin) - prop.n., Edinburgh, lit. ivy fort
Dun Ghaillain - prop.n., Fort of Storms
Dun I - Hill of the Isle, name given to the highest point on the Island of Iona.
Dunkeld (Scots) - Fortress of the Caledonians
Dun Lúths (Dun Luce) prop.n., Fort of Strength, MacDonnell castle in North Antrim
Dun mac Uianich - prop.n., Fort Of The Sons Of Uisneach (from the Deirdri Ballads)
Dun Naibhig - prop.n., Fort of the Little Warships, on Lagavullin Bay, Islay
Dun na n’Breatánn - prop.n., Dunbarton (Dumbarton), fortress of the Britons
Dun na n’Gall - prop.n., (Donegal) fort of the foreigners
Dun na ni neamh - prop.n., (Dunanynie), lit. fort of a heavenly place, MacDonnell castle in Antrim
Dun Ollaigh - prop.n., Dunollie, Great Fort
Dun Sgáthaich - prop.n., Fort of Shadows. Early stronghold in The Isle of Skye.
Dun Sobhairce - prop.n., Fort of Sobhairce, an early king of northern Ireland. (Dunseverick)
Dun Staffnage - prop.n. (Norse - "stafr-nis") Fort of the Headland of the Staff
Dun Tulm - prop.n., Fort of The Eminence, a property of the Sleate MacDonalds in Trotternish, Isle of Skye
Duthaich (Duthcha, mod. Irish - Dúchas) - n.f., a country
Duthchannan - n.f.pl., countries
Duthus (Duthchas) - n.f., land or other property reserved for or controlled by the chief
E - pers.pron., he, him, it
E! - inter., Aye!
Each (Eich, Ech) - n.m., a horse
Eachach - n.m., well supplied with horses
Eachan - n.m., horseman, often translated as Hector
Eachan Reabhach - The Devil on horseback
Eachan Ruadh nan Cath - Red Hector of the Battles
Each airean - horse ploughman
Èadan - (Irish) n.m., forehead, front, brow. Also "In Èadan" - against, opposed to.
Èadan Duibh Charraige - Brow of the Black Rock.. Caput of the ÓNeills of Clandeboye & Lecale. Now known as Antrim Town.
Eadar - prep., between
Eadarainn - prep., between (us)
Éadbhard - name (Irish) Edward (rare)
Eadh (Seadh) - that’s it, it is
Eag (Eagach) - n., groove, notch
Eagal - nm., fear, afraid
Eaglais - n.f., Church
Eaglais Cheiltich - name, Celtic Church
Eaglais Chléireach - name, Presbyterian Church
Eaglais Choitcheann Rhòmanach - name, Roman Catholic Church
Eallach - nm., a load, a burden
Éamonn - name ( Irish) Edmond also used as a substitute for Edward
Ean - n.m., a bird
Eanruig - n.m, injured or defective bird, Henry
Eanruig Mhór mac Righ Neachtan - Big Henry, son of King Nectan
Ear - n.f., (Scottish) the east
Earar - day after tomorrow
Earb - nf., a roe
Eárr - n.m., tail, lowest extremity, a ridge or saddle
Earr á Ghaideal - prop.n., Border of the land of the Gael (Argyll)
Eas - n.m., a waterfall, cataract, cascade
Eascaine - n., a curse
Eascainigh - v., to swear (as to curse)
Eas Geiphtine - (Old Irish) Cataract of a Hundred Fires
Eas Ghleann Aireamh - Glen of the Plough waterfall
Echmarcach - n., horse rider
Eideard - name.(Scottish), Edward
Eige - n.f., a web.
Eigg - prop.n., (Norse) Notch, Isle of the Notch. One of the small isles in the Sea of The Hebrides.
Eiginn (Eigin) - indef.pron., some
Eilde - nf., hind, female red deer
Eile - indef.pron., other, another
Eileach - n.m., Little isle, islet
Eileach an Naoimh - Little Isle of The Saints. aka The Saints Millrace, a monastic isle in the Garvellach Isles
Eilean - n.m., Training
Eilean (Norse - Inis) - n.m., isle, island
Eilean (Norse - Innis) - n.m.pl., isles, islands
Eilean Arainn - n.m., Isle of Bread, Isle of Arran
Eilean Barraigh - Last Isle, Isle of Barra in the Western Isles
Eilean Bheàrnaraidh - Isle of a certain gap. An island located between North Uist and Harris in the outer Hebrides.
Eilean Comhairle - Council Isle. The small island in Loch Finlagan where The Council Of The Isles met, and where Lords of The Isles were ordained until 1387.
Eilean Fhionan - Saint Finnan’s Isle. Place of worship of Clanranald near Tioram Castle.
Eilean MhicAodh - prop.n., Island of the descendent of Hugh. Island Magee. A peninsula in North Antrim.
Eilean Mhór - Large Island. The seat of The Lords Of The Isles in Loch Finlagan on the major island of Islay.
Eilean Mhuireil - The Walled Island, prison island in Loch Finlagan
Eilean Munde - Isle of The Teacher
Eilean Nam Marbh - n., Isle of the Dead, graveyard of the MacIain MacDonalds of Glencoe
Eilean Nan Garbhlach - The Garvellach Isles
Eilean Naomh - Holy Isle, Nave Island off the west coast of Islay
Eilean Rathlainn - prop.n., Rathlin Island. Raft of Plenty, lit. Isle of the raft of the corn yard
Eilean Sgitheanach - prop.n., Isle of the Weary (Isle of Skye)
Eilean Siar - prop.n., The Western Isles (of Scotland)
Eilginn Moireabh - prop.n., Town of Elgin in Moray
Eilid (Eilde) - nf., a hind
Éire (Éirin) - n.m., Ireland (gen. - Éireann)
Eireachd (Airecht, Oireacht, Eirecht) - n.m., an assembly, a gathering
Eireachd (Erache) - n.f., beauty, elegance
Eireachdail (Eruchcal) - adj., Handsome, fine, beauteous, graceful, pious, fit to accompany
Eireachdas (Euruchcus) - n.m., decency, handsomeness, seemliness
É
ireannach - adj., Irish, Irishman/IrishwomanÉ
irich - v., rise, get upEiscir Riata - n., lit., running ridge. An ice age exposed ridge of sand and gravel running east- west along a line from Clonard in Co. Meath to Clonmacnois in Co. Offaly, marking the legendary division between "Leth Cuinn" and "Leth Moga", the two halves of Ireland and representing the hegemony of the Ui Neill in the north and the Eo’ganacht in the south.
Eisg (lasg) - nm., a fish
É
ite - n.f., quartzEl - n. a square yard of cloth
Elbhileadh (Feileadh Beg) - n., pleated cloth, kilt. Term used in Islay for a kilt.
E Main Macha - prop.n., (old Irish) Abode of the Goddess Macha
Enech (archaic, celtic) - n., honor, dignity (Modern Gaelic - onair)
Eochaidh - prop.n., Horseman of the Heavens.
Eóchu - prop.n., Slaves Lord, 4th century High King of the Irish at Tara.
Eóghan - name, son of Esus, Owen
Eóghanacht - n.m., people of Owen, ruling family of Muma (Munster)
Eóghanacht Airthir Chliach - Eóghanacht of the Awkward Plowmen.
Eóghanacht Áine - Eoghanacht of the Fish Liver
Eóghanacht Chaisil - Eóghanacht of the Castles
Eóghanacht Glendamnach - Eóghanacht of the Valley Mill Men
Eóghanacht Locha Leinn - Eóghanacht by the Bays
Eóghanacht Raithlinn - Eóghanacht of the Quarter Generation.
Eoin (Iain) - name, John, introduced into the Gaedhil after the advent of Christianity, usually associated with the Apostle John, whose symbol in Gaelic art is the eagle.
Eoin - nm.pl., birds
Eoin Nam Lúb - John of the Lowb (fl.1529), progenitor of the MacAlisters of Loup
Eolach (eolaiche) - adj., acquainted, skilled
Epone (Ethine) - n., (Alban Gaelic) pagan horse goddess
Erenach - n.m., (old Irish - Airchinnech, Scottish - co-arb) lay guardian of an ecclesiastical settlement
Erinnach - n.m., adj., Irish Celt, Irish
Erinnaich - n.m.pl., Irish
É
riu (Ibheriu) - prop.n., (old Irish) The Fertile Country, IrelandEsus - Irish pagan deity (Greek - Hermes)
Euchdaich - adv., furious, angry
Eun (Eoin) - nm., a bird
Faber (Gabha) - (Norman French origin) n., blacksmith
Facal - n.m., a word, solemn oath
Facalair - n.m., vocabulary
Fad - n.m., length, distance, tallness
Fad - prep., during, over, throughout
Fada (Fhada) - adj., long, distant, tall, large, the large, the tall (lit. well fed)
Fag (Fagail) - v., leave
Fagus (Faisge) - irr.adj., near
Faic (Faicinn) - irr.v., see, behold
Fáidheil - adj., prophetic
Faigh - irr.v., get
Fail - n.f., mark, print, trace, a ring; also a peat spade
Fail - v., corrupt, putrephy, parboil
Faill (Irish) - n.f., opportunity, chance, promise
Failte - adv., welcome, welcomes
Falach - n.m., concealment, a place of concealment
Falaich - v., hide, veil, conceal
Falbh - v., go
Fallsa - adj., false, deceitful, treacherous
Fan (Fantainn) - v., wait
Fang (Fainge) - nf., a sheep-pen
Faod - v., depend (form of faodaidh)
Faodaidh mi - I may
Faoil - n.m., profuse generosity, hospitality
Faoilain - n.m., generous person
Faol - n.m., wolf, wild dog
Far - adv., where
Farsada - adj., calm
Fas - v., grow
Fáth - n.m., cause, reason
Fathast - adv., yet, still
Fátheimh - n.m.pl., druid priests who carried out sacrifices to the gods
Fáthi - n.m., druid priest who carried out sacrifices to the gods
Feadan - n.m., pipe, a chanter
Feadh (Air feadh) - prep., among
Feadhainn - some people
Feairrd - adj., better best
Feall - n.f., deceit, treachery
Feall (Fiaool) - adj., deceitful, false
Fear (Fir, Fer) - n.m., a man, a husband, a goodman
Fearainn - n.m., estate, holding
Fearainn Dhomhnuil - Donald’s Land. Holdings in Easter Ross possessed by Clan Munro.
Fearann - n.m., land, earth, ground, country
Fear-cuil - nm., a musician
Fearchar (Ferchar) - name, friendly man, goodman
Fearg - nm., anger, wrath
Fearr (Math, Maith) - adj., good
Feasgar - nm., evening
Fecht - n., (old Irish) participation in reiving or military expeditions.
Féidh - gen.n. & n.pl. of fiadh, deer.
Feileadh Breacan - nm., tartan kilt
Feileadh Mhór - nm., great kilt, a piece of tartan cloth used as a garment, donned by laying it out on the ground, lying down on it, and rolling up in it.
Feileadh Beg - nm., little kilt, modern kilt, a tailored garment, usually pleated.
Féin - emph.part., -self muid féin - myself, sibh féin - yourself, fhein - mine
Féis (Féisd) - n.f., a feast, banquet, festival
Féis Temro - prop.n., (Old Irish) Feast Of Tara, ancient Irish coronation ritual
Féith - n.f., bog, swamp, fen, morass; also a calm, a stillness; a sinew, a tendon, a vein
Féith Rob - Robert’s Bog
Feoraich - irr.v., asking, inquiring
Fearchar (Ferchar) - n.m., a bondsman,
Ferchar Fótas - Ferchar (Goodman) the Rotten, King of Dalriada, d. 697
Fergus (Firghus, Fearghus) - name, Man of Spirit
Fergus Ceann Fada - prop.n., Fergus Long Head, grandfather of Colm Cille
Ferleighinn - adv., lector, reader (of Scripture), Celtic Church officer
Feum (Feuma) - nm. (nf.), need
Feumaidh mi - I must
Fhád’s a bhios - so long as
Fhathast (Fathast) - adv., yet
Fhiodhan - n., winding river
Fhiogais - n., bloom, flower
Fhir - chieftain
Fhitheach - n., raven
Fhleisteir - n.m., Fletcher, arrow maker
Fhuair - v., got (past tense of faigh)
Fiabhras - n.m., a fever
Fiach (fiacall, fiacia) - n.f., tooth
Fiadh (pl. - Féidh) - n.m., a deer
Fianais - n.f., witness, testimony
Fiannaidh - n.f.pl., witnesses
Fiar - adj., adv., oblique, aslant, awry, cross, inclining, meandering, fluctuating
Fiar - v., pervert
Fiata - adj., wild, shy
Fichead - nu., adj., twenty
Fili (Old Irish) - n., poet, storyteller
Filidh - n.m., a poet, a bard, a storyteller
Fingall - fair haired foreigner (Norse)
Finlagan - n.f., calm little hollows
Finn (Find) - adj., fair, white, blond, calm
Finn - name, Fionn, The Fair
Finnghall - fair haired foreigners. Gaelic name for Norse Vikings.
Finn mac Cumail (Finn MacCool) - Fair son of the Celebration
Fiobh (Fibh) - prop.n., province of Fife in eastern Scotland
Fiodh - n.m., timber
Fion - n.m., wine
Fionghuin - adj., fair born
Fionn - v., ascertain, discover
Fios - n.m., knowledge, information
Fiosachd le comharraibh - augury-
Fiosaiche (Eun-dhruidh) - v., augur
Fiosaicher - n.m., augurer
Fir - n.m., man (Also plural of Fear)
Fir flathemon - adv., (old Irish) the justice of a ruler
Flann (Dearg, Deirge, Dhream) - adj., red, blood red
Fled - n., (old Irish) feast or festival
Fled Goibniu - feast of the pagan Celtic god Goibniu.
Flesc - n.m.pl., rods
Flidh - prep., of a poet, of poetry
Flidhean - n.f., musicians, scholars, druids (generally)
Fliuch (Fliuiche, Fliche) - adj., wet
Fo - prep., under
Fodham - under me
Fodhla (Fotla) - prop.n., province of Atholl in central Scotland
Fógradh - n.m., banishing, exiling
Fógradh Air Chríosd - Exiles For Christ
Fonn (Foun) - n.m., air, tune, humor, frame of mind
Fón coill - outlawed
Fortriu (Fortrenn) - prop.n., Strathearn, tribe and province in central Scotland
Fosgall (Fosgladh) - v., open
Fosgailte - v., adj., opened
Fót - n.m., rotten earth
Fóta - adv., the rotten, corrupt
Fótas - n.m., rotten pus, refuse.
Fotha - v., feed, provide, embellish
Fraing - n.f., France, also - prop.n., Frances
Fraingeis - n.f., French language
Frangach - adj., French; n.m., a Frenchman, a Frank
Fraoch - n., heather
Fraoch Eilean - MacDonald motto, "Heathery Isle" honoring Casteall Claidh on small isle of that name off southern tip of the Isle of Jura, first Norman style castle built in the lordship of The Isles
Fras (Froise) - nf., a shower
Freiceadan - n.m., watch, guard
Freiceadan Dubh - Black Watch Regiment
Frith - adj., little
Fríth - n.f., deer forest, a wild mountainous place
Frith - n.f., incantation to find whether or not people at a great distance, or at sea, are alive.
Frith - n.f., service
Frith-Bhaile - Little town, village
Frith-Bhaile Sheildag - Seahorse Village
Fríthear - n.m., gamekeeper
Frithear - adj., peevish, whimsical
Frithir - adj., earnest, eager, fretful
Fuar (Fuaire) - adj., cold
Fuireach - vn., staying
Furasda - irr.adj., easy
Gab - n.m., a mouth, a tattling mouth
Gabaire - n.m., a garrulous fellow.
Gabh - v., take
Gabha (Faber) - n., blacksmith
Gabhála - n.pl., invasions
Gabhan - n., smithy
Gabhlan - n.m., a wanderer, a man devoid of care.
Gabrán - name, the garrulous one
Gach - v., indef. pron., each, every, all
Gaedhil - n., Gaelic homeland, land of the Gael (archaic)
Gaeilge - n., Irish language
Gaeilgeoir - n., Irish speaker
Gael - n.m., Celtic inhabitants of Ireland and Scotland. Phonetic derivative of Gaoidhil
Gaelic - adj., English word meaning of or pertaining to the Gael
Gàidhealach - adj., Gaelic, Highland (Islay dialect)
Gaidhealtachd - n.f., Gaeldom, land of the Gael (modern)
Gàidhlig - n.f., Gaelic (language)
Gaisge - n.f., heroism, valor, feats, achievement
Galeator - (Norman French origin) n., helmet maker
Galda (Gallda) - n.m., foreigner, stranger, i.e. Sassunach, crowner, etc.
Gall - adj., strange, foreign
Gallach - n.m., native of foreigner’s land, of Caithness
Gallaibh - prop.n., Caithness
Gallan - n.m., a straight young tree, a branch, a handsome youth
Gallán cloiche - n.m., (Irish) a stone pillar
Gallda - adj., foreign, lowland (See Galda)
Gall Ghaidheal - prop.n., province of Galloway in southwest Scotland (land of the foreign Gael)
Gallionn, Galiun - n.f., storm, tempest
Gallóglach (Irish, Eng. - gallowglass) - n.m., lit. foreigner in green, a Scottish mercenary in Ireland.
Gallóglaigh (Irish, Eng. - gallowglasses) - n.m.pl., Scottish mercenaries in Ireland
Gamhainn - n.m., a year old calf, a stupid fellow
Gamhna - n.m.pl., yearling calves, stupid people
Gann - adj., scarce
Gaoid - n.f., blemish, flaw, defect, particularly in cattle
Gaoidhil (Goidel, Welsh - Gwyddyl) - n.f., a flawed person, a barbarian. Phonetic root of Gael.
Gaoith - n.f., wind, proximity
Gaol (Scottish) - n.m., love, affection, fondness, a darling
Gaol (Irish) - n., 1. relationship, kinship, 2. Relative, relation
Gaolach - n.m., a beloved person
Gaolach - adj., beloved, affectionate, dearly beloved
Gaoth - n.f., the wind, flatulency
Gaothach - adj., windy
Gar - v., warm
Gar (Gair, Gaire) - n.f., proximity, nearness
‘Gar - prep., pronoun, for
Gàradh (Gàrradh) - n.m., a garden, a dike, a yard
Garan - n.m., a grove, a thicket, undergrowth, brush
Garbh - adj., rough, thick, rugged, harsh, brawny
Garbhlach - n.m., rank moor grass, rugged country
Garg - adj., fierce, harsh, turbulent, tart, bitter, acrid, pungent
Gargan - Prop.n., bitter little place. A settlement in Antrim
Garmòran - prop.n., for a great number, for many. Ancient territory of the MhiccRuairidh.
Garrach - n.m., a gorbellied child, a most impertinent fellow, a wretch, a little glutton, a contemptible manikin
Gárradh (also Gáradh, Garaidh, Irish - Garrai) - n.m., a garden, a wall, an act of warming, any dike, a yard, an enclosure, a copse, a thicket
Gartain - n.pl., gardens, walls
Gas - n.m., stalk, stem, particle, a broom
Geal (Gile) - adj., white
Gealach - nf., moon
Gear - adj., sharp, steep, intense, sour, great, mighty
Gearòld Iarla - prop.n., (Irish) Earl Gerald
Gearòldain - Geraldines
Gearr Abhain - Short River
Gearr - v., cut, geld, satirize
Gearr (Goirid, Goirra) - irr.adj., short, brief
Gearr - n.m., an abridgement
Geárr - n.f., a hare
Gearradh - nm., cut
Ged - conj., though, despite
Ged a bha na peilearan feadalaich mún cluason - Despite the bullets whistling about their ears. Traditional account of the escape of Colla Ciotach MacDonald of Colonsay from the 1614 siege of Dun Naibhig Castle in Islay.
Géire - adj., comparative of geur, more sharp, sharpness, sharpest, etc.
Géireach (Scots - Giric) - The Sharpest One, 9th Century co-king of Alba, son of Donald I, of Scots
Geug (Geige)- nf., a branch
Geur (Geire, Geoire) - adj., sharp
Gheibh - irr.v., will get
Ghillemhaoil - n.m., tonsured servant
Ghille Mhuire - servant of the Virgin Mary, Gilmore
Ghleann (or Ghlinne) Gáradh - prop.n., Glen (or Glens) of the Garden, Glengarry
Ghlun - n., knee
Ghobhainn - nm., smith, armorer
Gilfine - n., house, descendents of a common grandfather
Gille (Gillie, balach) - n., adj., lad, boy, youth, crofter, peasant, follower, young man, servant
Gillean - n.pl., lads, boys, youths crofters, peasants, followers, young men, servants
Gilleasbuig - name, n., Archibald
Gilleasbuig Gruamach - Grim Archibald (Campbell), 8th earl, 1st Marquis of Argyll
Gilleasbuig Dubh - Dark Archibald. Son of Hugh MacDonald of Sleate who murdered all his brothers and was in turn murdered by his nephews.
Gilleathain na Tuaidh - The Young Thane (Gillian) of the Battleaxe
Gillebruide - prop.n., brutal boy
Gillebruide Na H’Uaimh - prop.n., Brutal Boy of The Cave (often incorrectly translated as "Gillebride" - Bridget’s Boy of the Cave)
Gillie Chriosd - Servant of Christ
Gin - indef.pron., any
Giobach - adj., active, spry
Gíogach - adj., cringing,stammering
Giolla Íosa Mhór MacFirbhsigh (Gilla-Isa-Mhór MacFirbis). Great Boy Jesus, Descendant of Pleasant Men. Compiled The Great Book Of Lecan c.1400..
Glac (Glaic) - palm of the hand, handful; embrace; a hollow; a valley; a defile, a dell
Glacag - n.f., a little hollow or valley
Glaic á Mhuirt - Murder Hollow
Glaic nan Gillean - Hollow of the Boys
Glaigh - adj., (Irish) green
Glaise (Glas) - n.f., grayness, a greenness
Glaisrig - n.f., a female fairy, half human, half beast; a gorgon
Glas - v., lock (glasadh)
Glas (Glaise) - adj., gray, green, cold, pale, wan
Glas (Glaise) - n., lock
Glascho - prop.nm., Cold As, Glasgow
Gle - intensive particle, very
Gleann - n.m., (pl. - Glinn) glen, valley, dale
Gleann Aireamh - Glen of the Plow, Glenariff. One of the nine glens of Antrim.
Gleann Aan - Glen of the Proverb. One of the glens of Antrim
Gleann Arm - Glen of The Army. One of the glens of Antrim
Gleann Baile Eamoinn - Glen of Edward’s Town. One of the glens of Antrim.
Gleann á Chomaire - Glen of the Confluence, Glencoe - or - (origin disputed)
Gleann Caol (Gleann Chumhann) - narrow glen, Glencoe
Gleann Cloigh - Glen of Stones, Glen Cloy. One of the glens of Antrim
Gleann Corp - Glen of the Corpse or Glen of the Dead. One of the glens of Antrim
Gleann dá Locha (Glendalough) - Glen of the two Lakes
Gleann Duinne - Brown Glen, Glendun. One of the glens of Antrim.
Gleann Éite - Glen of Quartz. One translation of the meaning of Glen Etive.
Gleann É Tigh - Glen of His House. Alternate translation of Glen Etive.
Gleann Fhionan - Glen of Saint Finnan, Glenfinnan, Moidart.
Gleann Mhór - The Great Glen, aka Gleann Alban - Glen Albyn, The Glen of Scotland.
Gleann na Lice Buidhe - Glen of Yellow Liqueur
Gleann Seiscé - Glen of the pleasant earth, Glenshesk. One of the glens of Antrim.
Gleann Taise - Softer Glen. Most northern of the glens of Antrim
Gleann Tollstadh - Glen of The Serviceable Hollow, Glen Tolsta, a coastal glen on The Isle of Lewis.
Gloine - nf., a glass, a pane
Go - v., may
Gó - n.m., guile, deceit
Gob - n.m., beak, snout, a point of land, a projection (pl. - Gobain).
Gobhar - n.f., a goat, also a branching river
Gocam-gó - n.m., a spy, scout, a person perched on a high place
Goibniu - the divine smith, pagan Celtic deity of fire
Goid - v., steal, pilfer, sneak, slip
Goidel - n., (Old Irish) A savage
Goirid (Gearr) - irr.adj., short
Go n’eirige an bofair leat - may the road rise to greet you
Go raib mah agut - thank you very much
Górag - n.f., silly female, young she-crow
Góracan - n.f., young male crow, a silly fellow
Góraich - n.f., folly
Goraidh - n.f., daredevil, daring one, reckless person, frivolous (Scots - Gorrie, English - Godfrey, Norse - Godred)
Gorme (Gorm, Guirme) - adj., blue, dusky, azure; birth marked, also green as grass, untrained, inexperienced
Gorme (Gorm, Guirme) - v., dye blue, make blue
Gorme (Gorm, Guirme) - n.m., the color blue
Gradh (Cion, Gaol, Gean, Grá, Searc) - n.m., love
Graegham (Scots) - Gray Home. Possible origin of the name Graham
Granna - adj., ugly, shameful
Gránnuaile - The Shameful One, Grace ÓMalley, pirate of Co. Mayo
Grassum - n.m., tax on a merkland to support 1 gentleman
Greumach (Greusaiche) - n.m., shoemaker. Probable origin of Cineal Greumach (Children of the Shoemaker - Clan Graham)
Grian (Gréine) - n.f., sun, sun god, Bel
Grianan - n.m., a sunny spot, a drying place for anything, particularly peats, a resort for lovers
Grianáan - n.m., a sun fort
Grianáan n’Aileach - prop.n., The Sun Fort of the Preferred One, ancient caput of Cineal Conaill in Donegal
Griob - v., nibble
Griogar - n.m., a tease
Gruaim - n.f., gloom, sullenness, surly look, melancholy
Gruaimean - n.f., gloomy appearance
Gruamach - adv., the grim
Gruamaich - adj., grim
Gruineart - (Norse) n., Green Fjord
Gu (Gus) Chugam (Chugad, etc) - prep.pron., to (till) me
Gu - conj., that
Gu - prefix to adj. to form adv.
Guaire (Scots, Lallans) - adj., n., noble
Gual - nm., coal
Gulbann - genitive of guilb, a beak
Gulbnech (Old Irish) - beaked one
Gu leor - adv., enough, plenty
Gún - that which, for, to their (gún cul - to their back)
Gun - prep., without
Gur - v. part., that it is
Gus - prep., to (the)
Guth (Gutha) - n.m., a voice, a word, a syllable, a mention, report
Gwalchmai - Brythonic pagan god (Greek - Hercules)
I (Ise) - pers.pron., she, her, it
I - prop.n., Iona, island location of Colm Cille’s monastery
I - n.m., (archaic) isle, the isle
Iad (Iadsan) - pers.pron., they
Iain (Eoin) - name, John, introduced into the Gaedhil after the advent of Christianity, usually associated with the Apostle John, whose symbol in Gaelic art is the eagle.
Iain Ar Ile - John of The Isles. Honorific of Good John of Islay, 7th Lord of The Isles
Iain Cathanach - John of the Battles, Honorific of John, 4th of Dun Naibhig & The Glens
Iain Fraoch - Heather John. John of Lochaber, progenitor of MacDonald of Glencoe
Iain Lom - thin or spare John, famous MacDonald bard, known as "The Lochaber Bard," buried at Cille Choirill.
Iain Sprangach - John The Bold. Natural son of Oengus Mhór, 4th Lord of The Isles, and progenitor of the MacIains of Ardnamurchan.
Ian - n., James
Ian Dubh nan Cath - Black James of the Battle (James Graham, Lord Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee)
Ian Mhór - James the elder, known as "The Tanist," second son of John, 7th Lord of The Isles, and progenitor of the MacDonalds of Islay and Kintyre, known in Ireland as The MacDonnells of Dun Naibhig and the Glens. They were often referred to as Clan Donald South.
Iar - (Scottish) adv., west (an airde 'n-iar)
Iarlai - n., earls, toiseach
Iarr - v., ask, seek (iarraidh)
Iarunn - nm., iron
Iasg (Eisg) - nm., a fish
Iasgach - vn., a fishing
Idir - adv., at all
Ile (I Lagh) - prop.n.m., Isle of the Law - Islay, island located west of Kintyre Peninsula
Ileac - n.m., an inhabitant of Ile
Im (Ime) - nm., butter
Imbolc - prop.n., (old Irish) pagan Celtic festival associated with goddess Brigit. February 1
Imeacht - adv., flight
Imeacht na n’Iarlai - The flight of the earls
I mo chridhe, I mo ghráidh - Isle of my heart, Isle of my love. Description of Iona attributed to Colm Cille.
Inbhir - n.m., cove or creek at the mouth of a river, opening, estuary, confluence, meeting of a stream with the sea or with another stream
Inbhir Cnoc Bhreach - Cove beside the Speckled Hill
Inbhir Fhiodhan (Scots, Lallans - Inverrigan) - Mouth of the winding river
Inbhirlochaidh (Scots, Lallans - Inverlochy) - Confluence or mouth of the lochs
Inghi'n (nighean, inghean) - n.f., daughter, girl
Inghi'n Dubh - Dark Daughter (fl.1575). Sister of Sir James MacDonnell of Dun Naibhig. Married The ÓDonnell. Mother of Aoidh Ruairidh (Red Hugh) ÓDonnell
Inghi’n mhic (Inion mhic) - prefix, daughter of the descendant of
Inis (Eilean, Norse - ey or aidh ) - n., island, isle
Inis Witrin (Brythonic) - prop.n., Isle of Glass, Saxon - Glastonbury
Innis (Eilean, Innse) - n.pl., islands, isles
Innis - v., tell, relate (innseadh)
Innis Chonaill - prop.n., Peaceful Isles, Island Home, "caput" of Clan Campbell on Loch Awe
Innis Eóghan - prop.n., lit. Isles of Owen. Peninsula in northern Ulster.
Innse Gall - Islands of the Strangers, the Outer Hebrides, the Western Isles.
Innte - prep.phr., in her
Íochdrach - adj., n.m., Junior, nether, lowest, lowermost, nethermost
Íochdrachenn - n.m.pl., Juniors, lowermost, nethermost
Ion - adv., having great or fit reason or cause
Íomhair - name (Scottish), Ivor, also used as a substitute for Edward
Ion - adj., fit, befitting
Ionad - n.m., place, situation
Ionad falaich nan rón slapach - The hiding place of the splashing seals.
Ionadh - whither
Iongantach - adj., wonderful, surprising, strange, extraordinary
Ionmhuinn - irr.adj., beloved
Iosa - n.m., Jesus, Son of God.
Iougantas - adv., astonishment
Is - v.emph., is
Is - conj., copula, and (colloquial)
Is mise lé meas - Me, I’m for it
Ith - v., eat (itheadh)
Iuchair - nf., a key
Kelpie - (Scots, Lallans) - n., sea monster, usually pictured as a seahorse.
Kentigern (Scots, Lallans, from old Alban) - high lord, specifically - saint credited with the conversion of Glasgow
Keppoch (Scots, Lallans) - (Gaelic - Ceapaich) n., the thinker, elder, founder
Kern (Irish) - n.m., peasant warriors
Kildare (mod. Irish) - (Gaelic - Cille Daire) Church of the Oak
Kildonnan - (Scots, Lallans) Church of Saint Donan, several of which were traditionally founded by the Saint.
Kilkenny (mod. Irish) - prop.n., (Gaelic - Cille Choinnigh) church of Kenneth or Canice
Kilkerran (Scots) - prop.n., (Gaelic - Cille Chiaráin) Church of the followers of St Ciarán, now Campbelltown
Killarney (mod. Irish) - (Gaelic - Cille Airne) church of the wild plum
Killiecrankie (Scots, Lallans) (Gaelic - Coille Chnagaidh) - Crooked Wood
Kilmuns (Scots, Lallans) - n.pl., church buildings
Kincora (mod. Irish) - prop.n., (Irish - Cine Cora) crossing place of mankind, palace of Brian Bóru on the River Shannon
Kinlochaline (Scots, Lallans) - prop.n., (Gaelic - Céann Loch a Linnhe) Head of the Loch of the Pool
Kirk (Scots, Lallans) - n., church
Kisimul (Scots, Lallans) - prop.n., (Gaelic - Cis a Mul), Eminence of Tribute
Knockdoe - prop.n. (Gaelic - Cnoc Tuagh) Hill of the Axes
Knocknacloy (mod. Irish) - prop.n. (Gaelic - Cnoc na Cloigh) Hill of Stones
Knocknanuss (mod. Irish) - prop.n., (Gaelic - Cnoc na Nús) - Hill of First Milk (after calving)
Kumbreyjar - (Norse) Small Isles. Cumbraes in the Firth of Clyde
Kyle (Scots) - n.m., a narrows; a narrow strait, a sound, a firth, a glen, etc (Gaelic Caol or Caolle, pl. - Caoil, Caoiltean)
La (Latha) - nm., a day
Labhair - v., speak (labhairt)
Lachlannach - n.m., a Man of the Bays, a Viking
Lachlannaich (Lachlann, Lochlin, Lochlinn, etc.) - n.m.pl., lit. Men of the Bays, Vikings
Lag - n.m., a cavity, hollow, any depression in the landscape
Lag á Bhuillean - Hollow or Bay of Revenge, Lagavulin. A bay on the south coast of Islay.
Lagan - n.m., little hollow, a dimple
Lag-an Bhriste Mhór - Hollow of the Great Defeat
Lagh - v., forgive
Lagh (Lagha) - n.m., law, right, order, method
Laghach - adj., fine, decent, kind
Laghail - adj., lawful, litigious
Laghan - n.m., a little ruler, a guiding stick
Lag na Spadairaich - Hollow of the Slaughter
Laidir (Laidire, Treasa) - irr.adj., strong
Laighe - vn., lying down
Laigin - n., (Old Irish) lit. Place of My Bed. Irish coicidh of Leinster, one of the five fifths of Ireland
Laigse - n., faint
Lainn (Lann) - n.f., a corn yard
Lair (Laire, Larach) - nf., a mare
Lairig - n., pass, mountain pass
Lairig Eilde - pass of the hind
Lairig Gartain - pass of the walls
Laithean - nm.(pl.), days
Lamh - n.f., a hand
Lanndair (lanntair) - n.m., landscape, the beautiful side of the country facing the sea
Lanntair Mhanaich - the landscape of the Monks (area around Kildalton Chapel in eastern Islay)
Lapidis M’Coull - n.m., standard units of measure
Lar - n.m., the ground floor
Laraichean - n.f.(pl.), mares
Lath - v. benumb, get benumbed, chilled, cold
Lathair - prep., (ann an lathair) in the presence of
Le (Leis) - prep., with, for, to, against
Lé - v., adv., partiality, leaning, favoring
Le gach boin a boinin - To every cow belongs her calf. Quotation attributed to King Diarmit of Tara in passing judgement against Colum Cille.
Lebar na Núachongvála - prop.n.,The Book of Glendalough or Book of Leinster
Leabhar (Old Irish - Lebar, Lebor) - n.m., book, document, chronicle, volume
Leabhar - adj., long, clumsy
Leabhar Dearg Nam Clanranald - Blood Book Of Clan Ranald, c.1660 history of Clanranald probaby authored by Giolla Colum mac an Ollaimh (MacMhuirich), Dean of Lismore
Leabhar na HÚidhre - Book Of The Dun Cow, a 12th Century Irish manuscript
Leabhraichean - nm.(pl.), books
Leam - prep.pron., from le - with me
Lean - v., follow, pursue (leantuinn)
Leanna - nm.gen., my beer
Learg (Lerg) - n.f., sloping face of a hill, or sloping place exposed to sun and sea.
Leargaidh Ghallda - The Foreigners’ Slopes, Largs. A town on the Ayrshire coast.
Leat - prep., in thee, with thee, in your company, in your opinion (pl. - leibh)
Leath - (old Irish - Leth) half
Leathad - n.m., a slope, a declivity
Leathan - irr.adj., broad
Leath Righ - co-king, regent
Lebar na N’uachongbhála - prop.n., Book of Glendalough or Book of Leinster, 12th Century manuscript written by Aed Ua Drimthainn, Abbot of Tir dá Glas Monastery
Lebor (Old Irish) - adj. long, voluminous
Lebor Gabála Érenn (Old Irish) - prop.n., Book Of The Taking Of Ireland, aka Book Of Invasions, fanciful 1631 Irish work recounting the legendary origins of Ireland and her rulers.
Lebor na Cert (Old Irish) - prop.n., Book Of Rights, 11th Century Irish manuscript
Le deagh dhúrachd - best wishes
Leibhéal - n.m., level
Leid - n.m., 1. a green nook or patch. 2. a shakedown, a temporary bed (made on the floor).
Leideach - adj., strong, shaggy
Léigh (Lighiche, Meigleathadh) - n.m., physician
Léigh - n.f., medicine
Leighiche - n., MacLeay
Léine - n.m., (Old Irish) originally a tunic, shirt, small clothes, underwear
Leir (gu leir) - adv., altogether, wholly
Leis - adj., lee, leeward, larboard
Leis - prep., along with him, with it, in his company
Leisg - adj., lazy
Leithid - n.m., match, equal, like
Leoghainn - nm., lion
Leoir (gu leoir) - adv., enough, plenty
Leotha - prep., with them, with theirs
Leth (Leath) - n.m., (old Irish) a half
Leth Cuinn - n., Conn’s half, northern Ireland
Leth Moga - n., Mug Nuadat’s half, southern Ireland
Leth righ - n., lit. half or partial king, regent, co-king
Leug - n.f., a precious stone, also lye or ashes for bleaching
Leug Buaidh - Meadow of the Charm
Leugh - v., read, lecture, explain
Leughadh - n.m., v.n., a reading, reading, lecturing, explaining, expounding, expatiating
Lia - n.f., (used only in composition) a stone, seat, place of authority
Lia Faill - name, Stone of Opportunity, coronation stone
Liath - adj., gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, moldy
Liath - v.i., become gray, turn gray, mold, get moldy
Licéar - n., liqueur
Lighe - n.f., flood, bed, grave,
Lighean - n.f.pl., floods, beds, graves (Irish - lighen)
Lighich - v., doctor, lance, let blood
Lighiche (Léigh, Meigleathadh) - n.m., a physician, a doctor, a surgeon
Lin (Liontan) - nm.(pl.), nets
Linn - n.f., a generation, age, ministration, incumbency or time in office, race, offspring, family.
Linne (Linn) - nf., a pool in a stream, usually below a falls
Linneachan - nf.(pl.), pools
Lion (Lin) - nm., a net
Lionn (Leann) - nm., a beer
Loch (Locha, Lochan) - n.m., a loch, a lake, a bay, a fjord, an arm of the sea
Lochaber (Lochabar) - prop.n., Lake of the Bear, aka Lake of the Confluence
Loch á Chlaidheimh - Lake of the Sword. Place where the boundaries of Argyll, Perthshire and Inverness meet.
Lochaidh - n.pl., lakes
Loch a Linn - prop.n., Lake of the Pool
Lochan - n.m., a pool, a pond, a small loch
Lochan Meall an T-Suidhe - Little Loch of the Black Lumps
Loch Finlagan - Lake of the Calm Little Hollows
Loch Laoigh - Calf Lake. A large salt water loch in Co. Antrim. Belfast Lough.
Lochlin (Lachlannach, Lochlinn, Lochlann) - (Scots, Lallans) n., Viking, Ostman, Varangian, etc
Loch Loman - (Loch Lomond) Lonely Loch
Loch na Madadh - Lochmaddy. Loch of shellfish. A MacDonald sept, cadets of Benbecula.
Loch nan Uamh - Bay of the Cave, site of Charles Stuart’s first landing in Scotland in 1745.
Loch n’Eathach - Lake of the Boatman. Lough Neagh. A lake in Co. Antrim
Loch Nigheadaireachd - prop.n., Loch of the Laundering. Early settlement of the Cineal Oenghusa in Islay.
Loch Oich - Lake of Exhaustion
Loch Shiel - Rainy Loch. A loch in Muideart in the territory of Garmòran.
Lodain - n.m.pl., puddles, pools
Lodan (Ludan) - n.m., a puddle, a pool, water in one's shoe.
Lóegaire - prop.n., The Cruel. 5th Century High King of the Irish at Tara who allowed Pádraig to evangelize Ireland.
Lofa - adj., rotten
Log - n.m., place, hollow, record
Log - v., record
Log ann - log in
Logairt - n.f., abuse, bad treatment. Also wallowing
Lom - adj., bare, naked, thin, spare
Loman (lomanach) - n.m., a miser, a person alone
Lón - nm., food, rations, provisions, lunch
Long (Loong, Luinge) - n.f., a three masted vessel, ship, sloop of war, a transport, a pirate
Longfhad - n.f., Viking longship, lymphad, a single masted war vessel
Lón lámhaigh - nm., ammunition
Lorg Coise - footstep, footprint or coronation stone
Lorimer (Scots, Lallans) - maker of military harness
Loscad - n., (Irish) ritual of fasting in which a curse was called down upon the ritual’s subject
Lothair-na (Norse) - Lothar’s Home, Larne, a town in North Antrim
Luath (Luathe) - adj., swift
Lúb - n.f., a curve, bend, fold, loop, noose, cunningness, trick
Lub - v., yield, meander, assert, be deceived by
Lúban - n.m., a bow, a hoop
Lubanach - n.m., a bowman
Luch (Lucha, Luchainn) - nf., a mouse
Luchd - n., adv., content
Luchdan - n., contents, load, cargo
Lucht - n., servant, retainer
Luchtach - n., MacDonald of Islay chief’s elite guard
Lugha - adv., less
Lug Lamfota - n., pagan Celtic god of the long spear and many arts
Lugnasad - n., (old Irish) Festival celebrating the birthday (August 1) of the pagan god Lug.
Luidealach - n.m., ragged person, shaggy beast, lazy or big slovenly fellow
Luimneach - prop.n., Limerick, verse
Luireacha (Irish) - n.m., mailed shirts, a term used in Ireland to describe gallóglaigh
Luingeas - n.f., a fleet, ships, a voyage, banishment
Luireacha - n.pl., mail shirts (English - Aketon), sleeveless war coat
Lulaigh-Uamhannaich - Leader of Terror
Lúths - n.m., vigor, strength
Ma - conj., if
Mac (Mc, M) - prefix, son of (modern)
Mac (Mic) - n., a son, sons
MacAedh - Son of Hugh, MacKay
MacÁFiosaicher - Son of the Augurer (MacÁfrithir)
Mac an leigh - Son of the Physician, Livingstone, Beaton or Bethune (See also MacBheatha)
Mac an Róthaich - Son of the Swathe, Munro
Mac an Toiseach - Son of the Chieftain, MacKintosh
Mac an t’Sacairt - Son of the Consecrated, MacTaggart.
Mac an t’Saoir - Son of the Redeemer, MacIntyre
MacAonghais - n., Son of the Unique Ones, MacInnes
MacAulaidh - Son of Olaf, MacAulay
MacBheatha - Son of Life, MacBeth, Bethune, Beaton, Livingstone
MacBheatha mac Findláich - Son of Life son of Findláich, King MacBeth
Macc - prefix, sons of
MacCaorthann - Son of the Rowan. MacCarthy
MacCathbarr - Son of the Battle Helmet, MacAffer
Macc Eoin Duibh - Sons of Black John. Style identifying the MacAlisters of Loup
MacChainneal - Son of the Candle (Torch), MacCannel
MacChaireal - Son of Noise (Melody), MacCarrol
MacCóinneach - Son of the Moss, Son of Kenneth, MacKenzie (MacCoinnich - Islay dialect)
MacCuaich - Son of the Drinking Cup (also MacCuaig)
MacDhomhnaill nan Eilean - Son of World Mighty of The Isles. Honorific of the High Chief of Clan Donald, always resulting from election by the Council of The Isles, falsely and pretentiously assumed by the chiefs of Sleate following the imprisonment of Domhnuil Dubh, 12th of The Isles and falsely endorsed by Lyon Court after Culloden.
MacDhonnchaidh - Son of the Brown (or indifferent). Duncan
MacDubh-shithe - Son of the Dark Fairy or Son of the Black Peace (MacDuffie, MacPhee, MacFie or Mehaffey in Galloway)
MacEachach - Son of the Horseman, or Son of He Who is Well Supplied With Horses, MacGeachy
MacEach-airean - Son of the Horse Ploughman, MacEachern
Macc Eoin Duibh - sons of Black John. Patronymic taken by the MacAlisters of Loup
MacFhionghuin - Son of the Fair Born, MacKinnon
MacGhille Eoin - Son of the Boy John, MacLean and MacLaine
MacGhilleSheathanaich - Son of the Servant of the Six, Shaw of Tordarroch
MacGhille-Mhaolain - Son of St John, MacMillan
MacGillebrath - Son of the Servant of Judgement, MacGillivray
MacGill’fhaolain - Son of the Servant of St. Fillan, MacLellan
MacGrioghair - Son of the Tease, MacGregor
Mach - adv., out
Macha - one aspect of the trinitarian pagan Celtic goddess Morrigan
MacH’Aedh - Son of Hugh, MacKay
Machair (Machir, Machaire, Maghaire, Irish - Maghery) - n.f., a field, plain, level or low land, an extensive beach
Mac Íc - adj., lit. son of the son of, grandson, descendant
Mac Íc Ailein - Grandson (descendant) of Alan. Honorific delineating the chief or Captain of Clanranald
Mac Íc Alasdair - Grandson of Alasdair. Honorific indicating the chief of the MacDonells of Glengarry.
Mac Íc Raghnaill Grandson or descendant of Ranald. Honorific of the chief of the MacDonells of Keppoch.
Mac Lath Bheartaich - Son of the Cold, Rich One (i.e.Noble), MacLafferty
MacMathghamhna (Irish) - sons of the bear, MacMahon
MacMhathain - Son of the Good Thane, a rendering of Matheson
MacMhathghamhainn - Son of the Bear, or Son of the Hero, a rendering of Matheson
Mac Mhicc Iain Mhór - Son of the Descendants of John The Great
Mac Mhic Ailein - Son of the Descendant of Allan. Honorific of John Moidartach or John of Moidart, 7th chief of Clanranald, d.1584.
MacMhuirich - Son of the Sea Fairer, MacVurich, Currie
MacNeacail - Son of Nicail, Nicholson
MacNeachdainn - Son of Nechtan, MacNaughten
Macraidh - n.m., youths, a band of male children
Macraidh Moor (Machrie Moor) - Moor of the youths
MacSporran - Son of the Purse.
MacUhirigh - Son of the Pallet, alternative rendering of MacVurich
Madadh - n.m., a dog, a kind of shellfish or mussel, the hold for the flint in a gun
Maduinn (Maidne) - n.f., morning
Maduinn Mhath - Good Morning
Mael - n., adj., adv., (Middle Gaelic) master, mister
Maélsechlainn Mór - Great Master of his Sect, Malachy the Great, Irish King
Maelmuir - Seamaster
Maelsnectai - Snowmaster
Maer - nm., steward
Maewyn Succat - given name of Saint Patrick
Mág - n.f., a soft, plump hand; a paw. Also, arable land, a broad ridge of land
Magh (Gen. Maí) - n.f., a field, plain
Maghaire á Mourne - Plains of Mourne
Magh Nuadhat - prop.n., (Irish) The New Swollen Plain
Maghnus - name, Farmer.
Mág Luingeas - Arable Land of Banishment. Dependency of Iona on the Isle of Tiree
Maghnus ÓDuibhgeannáin - Farmer, Descendant of the Dark, Loving Boy (Manus ÓDugan). Seannache of Roscommon who compiled The Book of Ballymote c.1385.
Magh Rath - Plain of the Ring Fort. Name of battle in Ulaidh lost by King Domhnuil Brecc of Dalriada in 637.
Mág Uidhir - n., Maguire, arable land of the district jesters, local comedians, humorous bards or People of the Dun Ridge.
Maide - n.m., a stick
Maide Dalbh - n.pl., pattern sticks for tartan
Maigh - n.m., Month of May
Maigh - v., (Irish) declare, claim, state, boast, begrudge
Maighdeann - n.f., a virgin, maid, maiden; the last handful of corn cut in a harvest
Maighdeann-mhara - n.f., a mermaid
Maighistir - n.m., master, priest
Maighistir-sgoile - n.m., school-master
Máileid - n.f., a bag, a wallet, budget, a pedlar’s pack
Mainistir (Mainisdir) - n.m., (Irish) monastery
Mainistir Rathmaolain - prop.n., Fort Of The Tonsured (Monks), Rathmullan Priory, built by Rory MacSweeney in Co. Donegal in 1516
Mainne - n.f., delay, reside, abide
Mair - n., (Scots, Lallans) bailiff
Mairbh - n.pl., the dead (na beó is na mairbh - the living and the dead)
Maireach - n.m., adv., next day (am maireach - tomorrow)
Mairg - n.m., adv., woe, foul fall, alas for, deplorable, pitiable
Mairgie - n.m., pity
Màiri - name, n.f., Mary
Maiseach - adj., fearless
Maith (Math, Fearr) - irr.adj., good
Máithair (Deasgann) - n.f., Mother
Mall (Maille) - adj., slow, easy going
Manach - n.m., monk
Manachail - adv., Monastic
Manachainn - n.m., (Scottish) monastery
Manachainneach Choitcheann - n.m., Catholic Monasticism
Mannan MacLis - n., Celtic deity who ferried the soul to heaven (Tir-nan-og)
Maoilain - n.f., the tonsured
Maoile - n.f., baldness, brow of a hill
Maoile Ruaidh - red bald (battle - Mulroy)
Maol - n.f., 1. bald, bare, tonsured 2. polled, hornless 3. blunt, pointless 4. a bluff, a high round headland 5. a dull-witted, stupid person Maolmórdha - n., Great or haughty bald one, Molloy
Maponos - n., pagan Celtic deity of eternal youth (Greek - Apollo)
Mar - adv., as, like as
Maraiche (Seóladair) - n.m., seaman, marine
Maraigh - n., kill
Marbh (nas mairbhe) - adj., adv., dead, lifeless, dull
Marbh (ámarbhadh) - v., kill, slay, slaughter
Marbhrann - n.f., an elegy, a funeral oration
Marc - n.m., charger, a steed, a horse
Marcach - n.m., a horseman, a cavalryman, a mounted warrior
Marcachd - n.f., a ride, act of riding, equestrianism
Mar tha (Cheana) - adv., lit. as it is, already
Mar sin- om the same manner
Martinmas - St Martin’s feast day, November 11
Ma ta - if so
Math (Maith, Fearr) - irr.adj., good
Mathair (Mathar) - nf., a mother
Mathghamha - name, Good Yearling Calves (i.e. - Stupid People). Name perhaps given to Clan Mahon by their Ui Neill overlords.
Math-ghamhainn - n.m., a bear, a hero. Probable actual name of Clan Mahon
Matis - nf., wife
Mawer - n., mower
Meadhon-ia - nm., mid-day
Meall - n.m., a mass, a heavy shower, a bank of clouds or of mist, a lump, knob, bunch
Meall - v.tr., deceive, cheat, entice, defraud
Meann - adj., clear, famous
Meas - n., adv., estimation, opinion
Measg (Am measg) - prep., among
Medb - one aspect of the trinitarian pagan Celtic goddess Morrigan.
Meidhisich - v. graduate
Meigleathadh (Léigh, lighiche) - physician; also prop.n., Bethune
Méinn - n.f., disposition, expression, features, will, desire, mercy, clemency, discretion
Mèirle (Mèrle, Meairle) - n.f., theft
Mèirleach (Mèrluch) - n.m., a robber, thief, outlaw
Merk (Merkland) - n., taxable unit of real estate or equivalent
Meud? (Cia Mheud?) - how much?
Mhairi (Mairi) - n., Mary
Mhaorine - n., mormaership, stewardship, Alban Gaelic political or military province
Mhic (mac) - adj., grandson, son of (archaic). Also descendant of
Mhicc - adj., descendants of
MhiccAlasdair - Descendants of Alexander (Alexander of Kintyre, k.1299) usually rendered as MacAlister
MhiccMuirich - Descendants of the seaman, Clan MacMhuirich or Currie
Mhicille Mhuire - Grandson of the Servant of the Virgin Mary. A rendering of Gilmore or Gilmer.
Mi (Mise) - pers.pron., I
Mias - n.f., dish, platter, charger, plate
Mic - prefix, evil
Michael Ó Cléirigh - Michael, Son of the Chief Cleric. Principal author of The Annals of the Four Masters.
Mi-chiall - n.m., insanity, folly
Midi - n., (Old Irish) Meath, Irish coicidh, one of the five fifths of Ireland
Mi-thein - emph.pron., myself
Mile - nm., a thousand
Milis (milse) - adj., sweet
Min (Mine, Meen) - adj., smooth, agreeable to the touch, soft, delicate, tender, small, fine
Min Garadh - prop.n., Fine Enclosure (Mingary Castle) Caput of MacIain of Ardnamurchan
Ministeir - nm., a minister
Mionaidean - nm., minutes
Miosa - adj., worse
Misd (Misde) - worst
Mise, pron., I, me
Mi-shealbh - n.m., ill luck
Mi-shealbhar - adj., unlucky, ill fated
Mi-sheilbh - n.f., misfortune
Misneach (Sprid, Uchtach, Ugach) - n.m., courage
Misnich - n.f., courage
Mith - n,m., one of the lower class as opposed to the nobility, ordinary, common
Mither Tap - n.m., ordinary summit. One of the small peaks on the major mountain of Beinnachaidh in Aberdeenshire where the 1411 Battle of Red Harlaw took place.
Mna (Mnatha) - gen. of bean, woman's
Mnathan - pl. of bean, women
Mo - pro., my, mine
Mo bhalach gasd’ - my fine fellow
Mo bheannachd ort - my blessing on you
Mo charaid - my dears
Mód - n.m., a meeting, an assembly, a court of law
Modh - n.m., 1. politeness, good manners, good breeding, style 2. manner, method
Mo Dhia, an do threig cineal mo chinnidh mi? - My God, have the clan of my name deserted me? Famous quotation of MacDonell of Keppoch at the Battle of Culloden.
Moireabh - prop.n., Moray. Grassy plain near the sea.
Molach - n., hair
Moladh - n.m., praise, eulogy, applause, recommendation
Moladh na Lanndaidh - title, "Praise Of The Landscape, " Anthem of Islay
Monadh -nm., a mountain, a moor
Mór - adj., great, large, first, of great size, tall and important
Mór - name, Marion
Mor - name, Sally, Sarah
Móran - n.m.., great deal, great number, great quantity, many, much
Mórar - n.m., great slaughter
Mórdha - adj., great, eminent, excellent, haughty
Mormaer - nm., great steward
Morrigan - n., (old Irish) pagan Celtic goddess, the queen of demons. Dagda’s counterpart.
Mort (Murt) - n.m., v., murder, massacre, slay
Mortuath - n.m., great tribe. Celtic political entity approximating a Norman earldom.
Mu (Mu thimchioll) - prep., about around
Mug - n.m., a snuffle through the nose, a sniff.
Mug - adj., adv., smug
Muid - (Irish) pronoun, we, us, our
Muideart - prop.n., Moidart, our shallow sea loch
Muigh - adv., favor
Muileann - n.m.&f., a mill, a grist mill, a saw mill, a machine
Muileann Cloiche - Stone Mill
Múin - v., teach, instruct
Muinntir - n.f., household, people, inhabitants, relations
Muir (Á Mhuir) - n.f., a sea, the sea generally
Muir (Am Muir) - n.m., a sea, the sea, ocean, a wave (usually big billows)
Muir-bháite - n.m., towering, engulfing wave; tidal wave
Muirchertach Ua Brian - prop.n., Son of Brian Boru and 11th Century King of Muma at Cashel.
Muirchú moccu Machtheni - 7th Century monk and biographer of Saint Patrick.
Muireadach Albannach - the Scottish Seaman, progenitor of Cineal MhiccMuirich, Clan Donald Bards
Muirghesain - adv., sea valor
Muirich - n.m., sea fairer
Muirgheasain - n.m., sea valor
Mul (Mull) - n.m., a conical heap, mound, point, headland, eminence, from Norse - Múli - jutting crag
Mul n’ Ceann Tir - Point of the Headland, Mull of Kintyre
Mullach - n.m., the top, summit
Mullintrae - The Eminence of the Occasional Pool, Mulindry
Muma - n., (Old Irish) Irish coicidh of Munster, one of the five fifths of Ireland
Munde (see also - oid-ionnsachaidh) - n.m., teacher, a religious teacher or pastor
Mungo (old Alban) - my dear friend
Mur - conj.part., if not, except, unless
Múr - n.m., wall of a rampart, bulwark, palace
Mur - coll.n., a countless number, abundance
Murchad - n., (Irish) given name, Murrough
Murt - adv., death
Murt na Ceapaich - The Death of The Founders (Keppoch), a poem by Iain Lom MacDonald
Mu thuath - prep.phrase, in the north
Na - conj., than
Na - pl.art., the
Na - neg.imper.part., do not, let not
Na - rel.pron., what, that, which
'Na - (cont. for ann a), in his, in her
Na Badagan - The Little Cluster, a group of small islands off of Islay
Nach - rel.neg.pron., what not, who not, that not, etc
Nach? - inter.neg.part., is not?
Nach - irr.v., that it is not
Na adh - adv., lit. - of fortune, lucky
Na h-uile (Iad uile) - indef.pron., all
Naib - n.m., warship
Naibeag (Nivaig) - n.m., lit. little warship, Hebridean war galley steered by a hinged rudder
Naibig - n.f.pl., little warships
Nall - adv., (a nall), to this side
‘N am (‘N an) - (cont. for ann am, ann an) in their
Nám (Nán) - conj., if
Nàmhaid - n.m., enemy, foe, adversary, invader (pl. - Nàmhaidean)
Nan (Nam) - gen.pl.art., of the (modern)
Naoi - nu., adj., nine
Naomh - n.m., adj., a saint, holy person
Naomh - adj., holy, sacred, consecrated, sanctified
Naomh Cainnech - prop.name, Saint Kenneth (527-600) b. Glengiven, Co. Derry, Ireland, patron Saint of Fife
Naomh Faoilain - Kindly Saint, Saint Fillan
Na h-úireach - of mold, moldy
Nebhis (Old Gaelic) - adj., venomous
Neil MacChailen Mhóir Cambel n'Loch Awe - Neil, son of Great Colin Campbell of Loch Awe
Neo - adv., or, nor, neither, either, else
Neo-chomhnard - n.m., indecision
Neo-thábhachd - n.f., futility
Neo-thearuinteachd, n.f., insecurity, incautiousness
Nepos (Scots) - n., young lord, lordling, franklin
Neul (Neoil) - nm., a cloud
Ni - nm., a thing
Ni h-éibhneas gan Cineal Dhomhnuill. Ni comhnairt bheith ‘ne n-eagmhais. - There is no joy without Clan Donald. There is no strength to be without them. 1545 quotation by Giolla Colum mac an Ollaimh, Dean of Lismore, the contemporary MacMhuirich bard, probable author of "Leabhar Dearg Nam Clanranald.".
Nia - n., (Irish) a warrior, champion
Nial (Neul) - n.m., a cloud
Niall Noígiallach - prop.n., Niall Of The Nine Hostages, 5th century High King of the Irish
Niata - adj., courageous
Nic - female patronymic prefix, (Nic Ailpin - a daughter of Alpine)
Nighean - n.f., a daughter, a girl, a maid
Nighneag - dim. of Nighean, girlie, lassie, a daughter
Nimhe - n.m., venom, a virus
Nimheach - adj., poisonous.
Nimheil (Old Gaelic - Nebhis) - adj., venomous
Nis - adv., now
Ni thu móran gaisge fhathast agus théid gach blár leat gas gun sáth thu do bhratach aig muileann Ghocam-gó, agus tha théid leat tuille ‘na dhéidh sin! - You will perform great deeds of valor yet and you will be successful in every battle until you set up your standard at the mill of Gocam-go, but you will never be successful after that! (Prophesy regarding Colkitto MacCholla Ciotaich)
No - conj., or
Nochd (An nochd) - adv., tonight
Nodons - n.m., (old Irish - Nuadu) pagan Celtic god of healing
Noir - n.m., the east
Nois - adverb, notion, inspiration
Núachongbála - n., Glendalough (Ireland)
Nuada (Nuadu) - prop.n., (old Irish) Celtic pagan god Nodons
Nuadh - adj., new
Nuadhat - adj., new swollen
‘Nuair (Anuair) - adv., when
Nuas (A nuas) - adv., down - from above
Nunn (A null) - to the other side
O - prep., from
Obair (Olbre, Olbreach) - nf., work
Obar Dheathan - prop.n., Smoky Works. Town of Aberdeen
Oc - adj., shinning
Ó
Cathan - Descendants of the Wild Goose. ÓCahan.Ó
Ceallaigh Ui Maine - Descendants of the Monks of the Monastery. Kelly, ÓKellyÓ
Cearbhaill - Descendants of the Harper. ÓCarrollOchd - nu.adj., eight
Odhar - adj., drab, dun, dapple, sallow (Oa - Islay dialect)
Ó
Dómhnaill - Descendants of World Ruler. ÓDonnell.Ó
enach - n., festival, specifically tribal festivals or synods held by Gaelic kings replacing pagan festival of Lugnasad on August 1.Oengus (Aonghas, Aengus) - n., Latin - AEneas, English - Angus, popular given name meaning "unique choice," with roots in the name given to the mythical Celtic Sun God "Aengus Og."
Oengus Mhór - Great Angus, 4th Lord of The Isles, d.1294
Oengus macìc Eoin Dubh - Angus, grandson of Black John (fl.1515). Styled Angus John of the Lowb, 8th chief of the MacAlisters of Kintyre.
Oengus Ogh - Young Angus, 6th Lord of The Isles, d 1329
Oengus Ogh, h’Aon Deugiú Triath Nan Eilean - Young Angus 11th Lord of The Isles, k.1488
Ogh (Oige, Irish - Og) - adj., young, little, the younger
Ogham - n., letters, alphabet
Ogiach - nm., a youth
Ó
gthighearn (Tighearn) - n., lit. "young lord," a thane, lord, lordling, laird, franklinOgma - prop.n., (old Irish) Celtic pagan god Ogmioc (Greek Hercules)
Oibriche - n.m., Worker
Oibrichenn - n.m.pl., Workers
Oich - interj., an exclamation expressive of pain, weariness or exhaustion
Oide - n.m., foster-father, godfather, stepfather
Oidhche - nf., night
Oidhche Mhath - Good Night
Oidheadh Chloinne Uisneach - title, "The Fate Of The Sons Of Usinech" (The Deidri Ballads)
Oid-ionnsachaidh - n.m., a tutor, instructor
Oighre - n.m., ice, an heir
Oighreachd - nf., clan territory recognized by the king
Oireacht - n., legislature (old Irish - Airecht)
Oir - conj., since, for, because of that
Oir - n.f., hem, border, edge, margin
Oir (Oirthear, Oirthir)- n.m., the east
Oirthear Maí - Prop.n., Armoy. The eastern border of the plain
Oir rioght (Urraight) - n., sub-chieftain, also tribute due to a chieftain
Oirre - pp., on her
Ol - v., drink (ag ol)
Olave Brieve - n., chief judge
Olbrichean (Obralchean) - n.f.pl., works
Olc (Mlosa) - irr.adj., bad, wicked
Oll - adj., (old Irish) great
Oll - prefix, (mod. Irish) great, vast, huge, gross
Ollaigh - adj., great, prominent
Ollamh - n.m., a learned man, a doctor, the highest of seven degrees of druid learning, modern Irish professor
Ollmho’r - adj., enormous, huge
Ollu’nacht - n., professorship
Ó
Muirgheasain - of the family of sea valor, MorrisonOnair - n.f., honor, dignity (Old Irish - 0nór, Ancient Celtic - Enech)
Ór (Oir) - nm., gold, (pl. oir)
Órail (Órach) - adj., gold, golden
Oran - nm., a song
Oran - prop.n., Saint Oran
Oransay (Norse) - prop.n., Saint Oran's Isle
Ord (Uird) n., a hammer (pl.uird)
Orm (Ort, Orra) - prep., on me, on thou, on them, my, mine
Ormacleit - My Rocky Eminence. 18th Century Clanranald castle on South Uist.
Ort - (Norse suffix) a deep sea loch
Pádraig (Padruic) - name, prop.n., Patrick
Pàirc -n.f., a park
Pap (Scots-Lallans) - nm., peak, pointed rock, Gaelic - "sgorr"
Peall - n.m., a hide, a skin, a horsehide, bunch of matted hair, a horse
Peann (Pinn, Peanna) - nm., a pen (pl. pinn, peannan)
Peathraichean - nf.pl., sisters
Peathraichean Triúir - Three Sisters (of Glencoe) Three peaks sheltering the glen.
Peitean - n., waistcoat
Pesrut - n., (Alban) red cloak, Roman official
Pheidearin - adv., arrowmaker
Phort - n., (Norse) port
Phort á Churaich - Port of the Coracles. Site of St Columba’s landing on Iona
Phort an Tobair - prop.n., Port of the Well. Early settlement of the Cineal Oenghusa in Islay.
Phort Lairge, prop.n., Waterford, lit. large port
Phort Mias-sgeire - prop.n., Port of the Plate Rock. Portnahaven, Islay
Piob (Pioba) - (modern Scottish Gaelic) n.f., 1. a bagpipe, 2. a tobacco pipe
Pìobaireachd - n.m., (Scots - Pibroch) 1. piping; 2. tune written or composed for a bagpipe
Piobar - n.m., pepper, piper
Píob mhála (na píoba) - (middle Irish) n., bagpipes
Piob shionnaich - n.f., Irish pipes or bellows pipes
Piuthar - n.f., a sister
Pluc - n.m., lump, bump, jumble of a sea, sheep rot (Scots- pilsought)
Poblacht (Irish) - n.m., Republic
Poblacht na hÉireann (Irish) - Republic of Ireland
Poc - n., bag
Poit (Poite - nf., a pot
Poll - n.m., a pit, a hole, a nostril, a pond, mud, mire
Pollnabróne Dolmeinn - Pit Of Mourning Grave. Pre-Celtic portal tomb in Co. Clare.
Port (Puirt, Calafort) - n.m., a port, a haven, a harbor. Also a tune, dance music, a reel
Port á Churaich - Port of the Coracle (on Iona)
Portnahinch (Irish) - prop.n., The Haven Of The River Meadows
Preas - n.m., a bush
Priòireacht (Irish) - n.m., Priory (Scottish - Comunn mhanach)
Priòireacht Bhaile Àtha an Righ - Priory of the Town of the Ford of the King (Athenry Priory)
Pris (Prise) - nf., a price
Punnd - nm., a pound
Putan - n.pl., buttons
Rabhairt - n.f. Spring tide. A person of great energy and purpose.
Rach - irr.v., go (ádol)
Radh (Ag radh) - v.n., saying
Ragaireachd - n.f., oppression, stubbornness, obstinacy
Rághnaill (Raghnall) - (Norse Gaelic) name, The Fierce, commonly anglicized as Ranald
Ràghnaill MacIain na Ile - Ranald, the son of John of Islay. Progenitor of the Clanranald MacDonalds of Garmòran.
Raghnall n' Lochabhar - name, Ranald of Lochaber. Progenitor of Clanranald of Lochaber, 7th MacDonell of Keppoch.
Raimh - nm.pl., oars
Raineach - n.f., fern
Rainig - irr.v., reached
Ráith - quarter of a year. From the druid custom of dividing the year into four parts.
Ramh - nm., an oar
Rán - n.f., a drawling dissonant roar or cry, melancholy cry; v., roar
Ranald - name, the fierce
Rann - n.m., a part, a division, a genealogy, pedigree, relationship. Also a verse, a quatrain, a stanza, a poem.
Rannach - adv., belonging to a peninsula
Raoir (An raoir) - adv., last night
Raon - n., field, range, track,
Raon Ruairidh - Rory’s Field (Highland name for the Battle of Killiecrankie)
Raonall na sgeithe - prop.name, Ranald of the targe
Ráth - n.m., ring fort, stockade, a residence surrounded by an earthen rampart. Also a raft.
Rath - n.m., grace, good fortune, prosperity, increase, use, profit, advantage.
Rathad - nm., a way, a road
Ráthmaolain - prop.n., Bald or bare fort, or, Fort of the Tonsured, Rathmullan in Donegal
Re - prep., during
Reabhach- n.m., 1. a trickster, a wicked fellow. 2. the devil
Réamatacht - n., Ague, rheumatism (Old Irish - Radhan)
Reamhar - adj., fat, stout, plump, fleshy, thick
Reic - v., n., sell, selling, a sale
Reiligiún - n., religion
Reilig (Relig, Cladh) - n.f. a crypt or place of burial under a church, a stone chest where the bones dug out of the graves are placed, a lair, a cemetery, a graveyard
Reilig H’Oran - Oran’s Cemetery on Iona, sacred burial ground of the kings of Dalriada
Réir - n.f., will, accord, agreement
Reive - v., (Scots, Lallans) raid, loot, maraude, rustle (as cattle)
Rhinns - n.m., a narrow promontory or peninsula
Rhune (Rune) - n., adv., (Scots, Lallans) secret writing, ogham or Norse Gaelic inscription on stone slab, boundry stone or marker
Rhunaidh - n. pl., secret writings
Ri (Ris) - prep., to, into, during, like to, of, concerning
Ri - (Old Irish) n., king
Riabhach - adj., drab, grayish, brindled, grizzled
Riabhach - n.m., grizzled one (an Riabhach - the evil one, the devil)
Riach - adj., grizzled
Riach - v., cut the surface, score a line
Riaghail - v., rule, govern
Riaghailt - n.f., a rule, a government, a law, a statute, sense, judgement
Riaghladair - n.m., governor, supreme ruler
Riamh (A riamh) - adv., ever, at any time before
Riasg (Irish - Riasc) - n.m., 1. dirk-grass, morass with sedge, land covered with dirk-grass, peat-moss; 2. stubbornness, indocility.
Riasg Buidhe - n.m., Black or dark morass. A bog on Colonsay where an ancient Coptic style face cross was found.
Righ - n.m., a king, a ruler, a governor
Righ nan Sudreyar - King of The South Isles
Righ ruirech - n., (old Irish) king of overkings
Righ Temro - title, King of Tara
Rinn (Ruinn) - n.f., a sharp point, a promontory
Rinn - v., did make, did; past transitive of déan
Riochdaill - skeletons
Ríocht - n.m., kingdom
Riocht Na Dubhlinn - Kingdom Of Black-pool
Rioghail - adj., royal, regal
Rioghachd - n., kingdom
Riomba - n.m., a semicircular bay or beach (Rioma - Islay dialect)
Ris - pp., to him
Ris (A Ris, Rithisd) - adv., again
Rium (Riut) - prep., to me, to thee
Rob - prop.nm - Robert
Robh - dept.v., was
Roghainn - n.f., choice, selection, option
Roimh - prep., before
Roimh-Radh - before saying, introduction
Roinn - n.f., for rinn, a sharp point, peninsula, also a share, proportion, division, distribution
Roinn Gharan - Point of The Thicket, Brushy Point
Rolag - n.f., a swath of grass, a roll of carded wool
Rollaig (Reilig) - n.f., a cemetery
Rollaig Oran - prop.n., The Cemetery of St Oran on Iona, burial place of Gaelic kings
Rón - n.m., a seal or seal calf, fetters for the forefeet of a horse (originally made from sealskin)
Rónachan - Place of the Seals
Ros - n.m., steep, wooded promontory, headland
Rosnat - n., little cape
Róthaich - v., twine, roll, swathe
Rowana - prop.n., pagan Celtic tree goddess, patroness of Rhunes associated with the Rowan tree
Ruadh (Ruaidhe) - adj., red, reddish
Ruaidh - n.f., redness, symptom of herpes or shingles, ruddy complexion, name Roy
Ruairidh - adj., red-headed
Ruairidh Buaireasach - Rory The Turbulent
Ruaig - n., adj., defeat, rout
Ruairi - n.m., prop.name, Red Head, Rory
Rubh (Rudha) - n.m., a point of land in the sea, a promontory
Rubh á Chrannaig - Point Of The Pulpit. Probable site of St Donan's Monastery on the Isle of Eigg
Rubh á Liath - Gray Point
Rubh á Mhail - Tribute Point, Point of the Wallet, northwest point on Islay
Ruig - v.t., reach, extend; arrive, come to, attain to; need, must needs (ruigsinn, ruigheachd)
Ruig - prep., to, as far as
Ruig - n.m., ram (half castrated or naturally defective), rig, ridged
Ruith - v., n., run, running
Rug - irr.v., caught, bore, gave birth
Run - v., love-making
Rún - nm., secret, beloved, intended, motion (debate)
‘S - abrev. for is, and (agus)
Sabhal (also Baíthaich, Irish - scioból) - n.m., a barn
Sabhal na Cnámh - The Barn of Bones
Sad - n.m., dust, dislike
Sad - v., dash upon, as to dust or spray
Saddeil - name, lit. Dusty Rod. Saddell Cistercian Monastery in Kintyre, site of Somhairle’s grave.
Sagart (Sagairt) - n.m., a priest
Sagarasta - adj., severed, separate
Saighdear (Saighdeir) - nm., a soldier
Saich (Saialche) - adj., dirty
Sailte - adj., salt, salted
Saineolai - nm., specialist, expert
Saiocht - nf., learning, wisdom
Saiu - adj., excellent, accomplished, superb
Saiu gallóglaigh - an excellent gallóglaigh, a gallóglaigh artist
Salm - nf., a psalm
Saltiri - (Norse) n.m., heel of the land
Sam-bith - any (airgiod sam-bith - any money)
Sam-bith - suffix, ever (co sam-bith - whoever)
Samhach (Samhiche) - adj., quiet, calm
Samhain - n., (old Irish) Celtic feast of the dead, Gaelic holiday, Nov 1
Saoghal - n., world
Saoir - v., free, deliver, redeem, claim (land)
Saoirse - n.m., freedom
Saor - nm., wright, joiner; also adj., free, cheap
Sasaidh - adj., sassy, fresh
Sasana - prop.n., England
Sasunnach - n.m., Lowland Scot, Saxon, Englishman (derogatory)
Sasunnach - adj., adv., of or pertaining to a Lowland Scot, Saxon, Englishman
Sasunnaich - n.m.pl., Lowland Scots, Saxons, Englishmen
Sath - adj., bad
Sáth - n.f., plenty, abundance
Sáth - v., transfix, fix, thrust
Scioból (Irish, Scottish - Sabhal, Baíthaich) nm., a barn
Schiltron - n., military formation, square or circle, ie: hedgehog of spears
Scóip - adv., scope
Scoth - adv., choice
Screaptra (archaic) - n.m., scriptorium
Scuta (Scotti, Scot) - n., pirate, brigand (archaic Irish)
Se (Sia) - nu., adj., six
Seacaid - n., jacket
Seach (Seachad air) - prep., by, past
Seach Tir Agus Seach Muir - By Land And By Sea (Clann motto)
Seachain - v., excl., avoid, evade, Beware!, mind yourself!
Seachain an fearg nam Domhnallaich! - Beware the wrath of the Donalds!
Seachd - nu., adj., seven
Seachduin (Seachduine) - nf., a week
Sean(n) (Sine) - adj., old
Sean - name, Shane
Sean (Seann, Shen) - adj., old, aged, ancient
Séan - n.m., a charm
Seanacharrach - adv., adj., old fashioned
Sean an Diomais - prop.n., Shane the Extravagant (O’Neill)
Seanchas - n.m., a tale, saga, tradition, history, ancient history, recounting of old stories
Seannachaidh (Seanchaidh, Seanachaidh) - n.m.pl., historians, storytellers, keepers of the tradition of the clan
Seannache (Seanache, Seanche) - n.m., a clan historian, reciter of tales, recorder
Seanns - n.m., luck, chance
Seannsail - adj., lucky, prosperous
Seannsgeulach - adj., legendary
Seas - v., stand (seasamh)
Seasmhach - adv., steadfast
Séathamh - adj., the sixth
Seinn - v. and n., sing, singing
Senchle’ithe - n., serf, an unfree tenant holding land in exchange for services to a lord
Senchus - n., (old Irish) tradition, census, accounting
Senchus fer ‘n Alban - Census for the Albans. Produced in the 7th Century, it is the oldest known document compiled specifically to establish tribute due.
Senchus Mhór - prop.n., Great Census. Commissioned by Saint Patrick to preserve druid learning.
Seól - v., direct, guide
Seól (Siuil) - n.m., a sail
Seól e - direct or guide him, Here it is!
Seóladair - nm., a sailor
Seólta (Innleachdach, ealanta, Cuilbheartach, Carach, eòlach, Teòma, Deas) - adj., Artful
Seòlta gallóglach - an artful gallowglass, an excellent gallowglass
Seóltachd (Eòlas, Ìnnleachd, ealain, cèard, alt, dòigh) - n.m., art, artfulness
Sept - n.f., family
Sett - n.f., tartan pattern
Seum - n.f., an earnest entreaty or injunction
Seumas (Sheumais) - nm., James (Irish)
Sgain - prop.n., Hill of Scone, Scottish coronation hill
Sgáth - n.m., shelter, slight fear or dread, shade, protection
Sgáthaich - n.m., shadow, shadows. Also the warrior queen of the Táin Bó Cuailnge who taught Cú Chulainn the arts of war.
Sgéile - n.f., misery, pity, ruin (Irish - scéile - grief, pity)
Sgéile Mhichiall - Pitiful Crazy One (Skellig Michael), monastery off the s.w. coast of Co. Kerry
Sgeire - n.f., a rock surrounded by the sea, a skerry, a rock sometimes under water, a peat-bank.
Sgeithe - n.m., targe, shield
Sgeul (Sgeoil) - nm., news, intelligence, narrative, narration, a story, a tale; information, tidings
Sgiamhach - adv., valor
Sgian - n.f., small dagger, knife
Sgian Dubh - nf., black dagger (traditional)
Sgillinn (Sgillinne) - nf., a penny
Sgillinn Shasunnach - an English penny, i.e. a shilling
Sgine - genitive of Sgian
Sgios - n.m., 1. fatigue, weariness, malaise, lassitude; 2. Toil, working indefatigably
Sgios H'Eireannach - Irish malaise
Sgith (Sgithe) - adj., tired, fatigued
Sgoil - nf., a school
Sgorfhiaclach - adj., buck tooth
Sgòrr (Sgùrr) - n.m., peak, pointed rock, hill
Sgòr na Ciche - Peak of Kicks (Pap of Glencoe)
Sgòrr nam Fiannaidh - peak of the witnesses
Sgùrr nam Eigg - Peak of the Notch on the Isle of Eigg (Eigg is Norse for Notch)
Sgread - v., n.f., screech, scream, yell, gnash
Sgreadag - n.f., an acid, anything sour
Sgreadail - n.f., screeching, crying, screaming, gnashing
Sgriobh - v., write, compose
Sgriobhadair - n.m., writer
Sgríobte (Sgríobhach) - adj., scriptory
Sgúrr - n.m., (see sgórr) a large conical hill
Sgúrr nam Eigg - prop.n., Hill of The Notch. (Norse/Gaidhlig) Major hill for which the island is named.
Sgúrr nan Gillean - Hills of The Lads, Isle of Skye
Sheathanaich - n.m., the six (persons or entities)
Shinnsear - adv., fame, renown
Shithe - n., fairy
Shithe - adv., peace
Shuil - n., eye
Shuaineirt - n.m., Sunart. A district in the West Highlands. (Possibly meaning twisted or entwined sea coast)
Sia (Se, Sianar) - nu., adj., six
Sibh (Sibhse) - pron., you
Sibhreach - n.m., (Scottish) fairy
Sidhe (Udrich) - n.m., (Irish) fairy
Siel - adj., rainy
Sigean - n.f., pleasant countenance, diminutive creature, a silly person.
Sil - v., rain, drop, drip
Sile - n.m., a drop
Sin - dem.pron., that, those
Sine - com.adj., older
Sìne - name, Jane, Jean, Sheena (Islay dialect)
Sinn - pron., we, us
Sinn Féin - ourselves alone, political arm of the IRA
Siol - n., seed, race (of people)
Siol Alpine - Race of Alpine. Family of 7 clans descended from King Alpine.
Siol Ghoraidh - Race of the Daring One (Gorrie or Godfrey), a branch of Clan Donald
Sios - adv., down (resting)
Sios (A sios) - adv., down, downward; motion to
Sir (Shir) - v. seek, ask, search (sir e - seek it)
Sith - n., adj., fairy
Siuil (Seol) - nm., a sail
Skjaldborg (Norse) - fence of shields
Skuta (Norse) - 40 oared war galley steered by an oar
Sláinte - n.f., health, salvation
Slan - adj., adv., health, healthy
Slan agut - (Irish) good bye
Slan leibh (Slan leat) - (Scot) farewell
Slap - n.m., a flap, flapping
Slap - v., flap, fling
Slapach - adj., slovenly, splashing
Slat (Slaite) - nf., a rod
Slatan - nf.pl., rods
Sliabh (Slieve, Cnoc, Brae)- n.m., moor, mountain, the face of a hill, a heath, an extensive tract of dry moorland, a hill, bent grass.
Sliabh nam Bhrugh - prop.n., Hill Of the Big Fairy House, aka Uaimh nam Greine, Newgrange
Sliabh Nan Eárr - Mount of The Ridge
Sliabh Raineach - Moor of Ferns, Rannoch Moor
Sliabh Smúid - prop.n., Mount Smoke (Slemish)
Slieve-an-Aura - Hill of Battle
Slieve na Callaigh - Hill of the Witch
Slievenamon - Mountain of the Fairy Women
Sligachan - n.m., traveler
Slighe - n.f., a way, craft; journey
Sliocht - n., tribe, race, family, sept
Sliocht Toirrdhealbhaigh - prop.n., Tribe of Charles. The MacDonnells of Leinster.
Sloc (Sluic) - n.m., a pit, a hole, den, dungeon
Sloc na Cailleach - Chasm of the Old Women
Slogad - n., (old Irish) hosting, assembled military forces of the clan, muster for war.
Sloinneadh - n.m., act of naming, declaring; surname; a traditional oral genealogy
Sluagh - nm.pl., people
Sluagh gairm - n., slogan, cry or call of a tribe or host
Smúid - n.f., column of smoke, smoke
Snamh - v. and n., swim, swimming
Sneachta - n., snow
So - dem.pron., this, those
Sobhrach - nf., a primrose
Sobhraichean - nf.pl., primroses
Solionmhor - adv., widespread
Somhairle - name, summer sailor (from Norse Sumarlidi, English - Somerled)
Somhairle Buidhe - Yellow Haired Summer Sailor (Sorley Boy). Captain of The Route and progenitor of the MacDonnells of Antrim
Somhairle mac Gillebruide - Summer Sailor, son of Brutal Boy, 1st Gaelic King of the South Isles, k.1164, actual progenitor of the lords of The Isles.
Spag (Spog, Spaige, Spoige) - nf., a paw
Sparth (Tuagh, Tuaidh) - n., axe, battleaxe
Splancacha - n., lightning
Sporan (Sporran) - nm., a purse
Spracadh - n.m., strength, sprightliness
Spracalachd - n.f., vigor, ability, boastfulness
Spran - adv., bold
Sprangach - adv., the bold. stimulated, enthusiastic one
Spreag - v., encourage, inspire, urge, stimulate
Spreagadh - adv., nm, 1. encouragement, inspiration, incentive 2. stimulus
Spreagthach - adj., stimulating
Spreidh - n.m., a small reiving or raiding expedition
Sprid (Misneach, Uchtach, Ugach) - n.m., courage
Sráid (Sraide) - n.f., a street
Srioghail - adv., adj., royal is
Srioghail mo dhream - my blood is royal
Srón - n.f., a nose, promontory or peak
Srón Uamha - prop.n., Giant’s Nose
Sruth - n.m., a stream
Stabull - n.m., a stable
Stadh - n.m., use, service, a swathe of grass or corn as it leaves the scythe.
Stalcair - n.m., a dresser of hooks, a stiff walker, fowler, deer-stalker
Steach - adv., in, invward (expressing motion)
Stigh (A stigh) - adv., in, inside (rest in)
Still - n.f., swift motion, a splash (of water), speed in water.
Stillbhard - n.m., steward
Stob - nm., peak
Stob Coire Claoidh Righ - prop.n., Peak of the Corry of the Exhausted King, a mountain in Lochaber.
Stob Coire nan Lochan - prop.n., Peak of the Corry of the Lochs, a mountain adjoining Glencoe.
Stocainn - n.pl., stockings, hose, particularly long hose for wear with kilts Strath - prep., across, on both sides of
Strath (Srath) - n., broad mountain valley
Strath Cluaidh (Clóta) - prop.n., Strath-Clyde, Kingdom of Britons in the Clyde River Valley
Stob - adv., any sharp object
Suain - n.f., profound or deep sleep
Suain - v., wreathe, wind about
Suaineart - n.m., place of profound or deep sleep
Suaineirt - n.m., Sunart. A district in the West Highlands. (Possibly meaning twisted or entwined sea coast)
Suas - prep., adv., up, upward
Sud - (Siod) - yon, that
Sudr Eyjar - (Norse) Southern Islands, Gaelic - Sudreyar.
Suibhneas - n.m., cheer, gladness
Suidhe - n.f., sitting, act or state of sitting
Sùidhe - n.m., soot, lamp black, carbon
Sùil (Sula) - nf., an eye, a mark, a spot, the center of a whirlpool, expectation, hope, an opening, orifice, superintendence, oversight, glance, sight.
Suthain - adv., upstanding
T- the, old form of the article "an"
Tá - pres. ind. of subst. v. "am."
Tá agam saoirse coiste an ábhar an cloiche dubh - I have freedom to swear this matter upon the black stones
Tábhacht - n.f., importance, significance
Tábhachtach - adj., important
Tach - adj., elite, special
Tachair - v., to happen
Tadhg - name, n., man, Mister, person
Taeh - adj., personal
Taigh - n. (Scottish), house
Tàillear (Tailleir) - nm., a tailor
Tailzie (Scots) - n.m., In law, the feudal concept of the inheritance of immovable property according to an arbitrary course that has been laid out, such as in a document known as a "deed of tailzie"
Táin (Tána) - n., cattle raid, cattle drive, herd
Táin Bó Cuailnge - Cattle Raid Of Cooley. Longest epic in the Ulster Cycle of Sagas..
Tairbeart - n.f., isthmus, name of isthmus of Kintyre and other like places (English - Tarbert) Original Norse meant "draw-boat," a place where a boat could be drawn across the peninsula on rollers
Tairbhe - n.f., advantage, profit, avail
Tais - adj., damp, moist, spiritless, soft
Taise - comp. Deg. of Tais, softer, more spiritless
Tàladh - vbl.n.m., act of attracting, winning, enticing, caressing, a lullaby, a cradle song
Tàladh an t'sneachda - Lullaby Of The Snow. A poem regarding the massacre of The MacDonalds of Glencoe
Tá mé saor coiste ar an cloiche dubh - I am free to swear this upon the black stones
Támh - n.m., rest, quietness, quiet, refuge, abode, habitation
Támh na h’Aire - refuge of watching. A hill overlooking Inverlochy Castle from which Iain Lom observed the Battle of Inverlochy.
Tamlorga - n., stave, staff
Tan - n.m., district
Tán - n.m., time
Tán (Táin) - n.f., cattle, herd of cattle, cattle raid
Tana - adj., thin, slender, lean, shallow
Tána - n.f.pl., cattle raids
Tanaire - adv., next to, second to
Tanaire righ - second to the king
Tánaiste (Tanistear) - n.m., lit. expected one, tanist, designated heir
Taobh - n.m., a side
Tapa - adv., quick, quickness
Tapadh leibh - quick action
Tapaidh - adj., clever, heroic, brave, bold, successful in business
Tapaidh leat - Thank you (lit. - success with you)
Tara (Temair) - n., ancient ceremonial seat of the high kings of Ireland, located in County Armagh
Tarbert - n., (English, Norse origin, Gaelic - Tairbeart) isthmus
Tarbh - nm., a bull, bull seal
Tarn - n., (Scots, Lallans), small mountain loch or marsh
Tarvos Taranos - Celtic diety of bull and thunder (Greek - Zeus)
Tascal - nm., a payment of ransom or reward, information money and guarantee of indemnity from criminal prosecution
Tascer - n., thresher
Tasdan - nf., a (Scottish) shilling
Targe - n., shield
Tarvos Taranos - n., god of bull and thunder
Tàth - n.m., pitch, strength
Tàth - v., join or soder, cement
Tàth Sinn - n.m., links
Teach (Tigh, Tegos, Scottish - Áras) - n.f., a house, habitation
Teach Screaptra (archaic) - n.m., Scriptorium, religious library
Teaghlach - nm., a family
Tegos (Tigh) - n., house
Teich - v., flee, escape
Téid - v., goes, will go
Teind - n., v., tithe, tax
Teine - nm., a fire
Teintean (Teineachan) - nm.pl., fires
Temro (Gaelic - Temair) - n., (old Irish) Tara, legendary seat of the high kings of Ulaidh.
Teth - irr.adj., hot
Teutates (Toutates) - n., Roman rendering of the Celtic god equivalent to the Roman god Mercury
Teuto valos - (old Irish) Ruler of the People. Pagan Celtic God from whom Teutates evolved.
Thá - v., is, am, art, are
Tha Alasdair mac Colla á dol air ais! - Alexander MacColla is retreating! Warning given the Camerons by Iain Lom at the Battle of Inverlochy
Thachras - v., will happen
Thainig - v., came, past of thig
Thairis (Thairis air) - prep., over, across
Thall - adv., over, beyond
Thane - n., (Scots, Lallans) farmer, landholder, gentry
Thar - prep., across, over
Theab - defect.v., had almost, had nearly
Theid - v., will go, fut. of rach
Theiradh - v.t., dare
Thiar - (Irish) adv., west
Thig (Tig) - irr.v., come (Tighinn, teachd)
Thjórsá - prop.n., Town of Thurso in Caithness
Thoir - v., give, deliver, grant
Thoir - adv., adj., (Irish) east, in the east.
Thorfinn Cumhachdach - prop.n., Thorfinn The Mighty. Earl of Orkney, d.1057
Threig - v., desert, abandon
Thu (Thusa) - pers.pron., thou, thee
Thuaidh - adj., (Irish) in the north, north
Thuaidh Muma - prop.n., Thomond, North Munster
Thubhairt - v., said, past of abair
Thu-fhein - pers.pron., thyself
Thug - v., gave, past of thoir
Ti - v., hail! welcome!
Tí - n.m., an individual
Tí - n.f., set design or earnest wish
Tiag (Old Irish) - n., reliquary, satchel for religious relics (Latin - Vexillum)
Tiarna (Irish) - n., lord
Tiarnas nan Eilean (Irish) - prop.n., lordship of the Isles
Tibeart - n.f., a well, a fountain
Tigh (Teach, Tegos, Scottish - Áras) - n.m., a house, a home
Tigh-beag - n.m., (lit. little house) an outhouse, privy
Tighearna - n.m., manor, estate
Tighearna Coille - prop.n., Forest Manor (Tinnakill) caput of the MacDonnells of Leinster in Co. Laois, Ireland
Tighearna Coille Duanaire - prop.n., The Tinnakill Miscellany, a 16th Century document, the oldest known surviving MacDonald record, held in the archives of Trinity College, Dublin.
Tigh-marsantachd - n.m., a shop, a store
Tighinn - v.n., coming
Tilg - v., throw (tilgeil)
Till - v., return, turn (tilleadh)
Tinctor - n., dyer
Tinn (Tinne) - adj., sick
Tinne - n.m., (Old Irish) Iron, things made from iron
Tinne Cille - Iron Church. Caput of the MacDonnells of Leinster in Wicklow.
Tioram - adj., dry, seasoned, arid, without moisture, also fair as weather, flippant in speech
Tir (Tire) - n., land, place
Tirconnaill - n., lit. Connell’s land, County Donegal
Tir dá Glas - prop.n., lit.- land of green grass. Early Irish Monastery in Co. Tipperary
Tir-nan-og - n., (old Irish) other world, heaven, lit. "land of youth"
Tir-na-dris - n., place of briars
Tir Eoghan (Tyrone) - n., lit. Owen's land, Central Ulster
Tobar - n.f., well, spring, fountain, source, origin
Tobar nan Ceann - Well of the Heads
Tobar na Gaoith Deas - Well of the South Wind
Tocher - n., dowry
Tog - v., lift raise (togall)
Togaidh fear fiar aimhreit - a perverse man stirreth up strife
Togall (Togaiach) - nf., a building
Togalaichean - nf.pl., buildings
Toigh - irr.adj., loved, fond
Toil (Tuill) - nm., a hole
Toir - irr.v., give
Toirdhealbhach (Calvach) - name, Charles
Toirdhealbhach Mhór MacMarcach - Big Charles, Son of Horseman. Chief of the MacDonnells of Knocknacloy from 1397 to 1435.
Toirneach - n., thunder
Toiseach (Toseach) - n.m., second to the chief, captain, chieftain, earl, thane, ruler, leader
Toiseach - n.f., beginning, origin, source, van or front, precedence, bow or prow of a ship
Toll - n.m., a hole, a bore, a perforation, also a hollow.
Tollichte - adj., pleased, satisfied
Tom - n.m., a bush, thicket, a knoll
Tom á Chrochaidh - Hanging Hill
Tom Aingeal - Knoll of The Angels
Tom na h-úireach - prop.n., Hill of Grave Mold. Legendary fairy hill in Invernessshire
Tonn - v., splash
Tonn - n.f., a wave, a splash, the sea (Islay dialect)
Tonnag - n., plaid shawl
Toom tabard - Empty coat (Scots, Lallans)
Torann - n., (Irish) noise
Tórr - n.m., a mound, a large heap, a knoll
Tórr Abb - Knoll of the Abbot. Hillock on Iona where Colm Cille built his cell.
Tórr á Breitheanas - Mound of Judgement
Tosheador - n., clan administrator
Traigh - v., ebb, dry up
Traigh (Traghad) - n.f., shore, strand, sands, a sea-shore, a hard sandy beach used as a road
Traigh Bhail Oenghuis - Strand of the village of Angus
Traigh Udal Beag - Little Strand of the Wanderer, a small beach on the isle of North Uist
Trath (Traithe) - adj. and adv., early, just now, betimes, occasional
Treas - nu., adj., third
Treasa (Treise, Laidir, Laidire) - adj., stronger
Treig - v., forsake (treigsinn)
Tréine - n.f., might, power
Tressure (Scots, Lallans) - n., border, flag decoration signifying royalty
Treun - n.m., a champion, hero or brave man
Treun (Also Trein) - adj., mighty, vigorous, valorous, brave, strong, surprising
Tri - nu., adj., three
Triath (Scottish) - n., lord, lordship
Triath nan Eilean (Scottish) - n.m., Lord of the Isles, lordship of the Isles Troil - adj., trashy, messy, sloppy
Troileis - n.f., trash, messy or sloppy things
Trom (Truime) - adj., heavy, weighty, addicted, luxuriant, ponderous, sad, melancholy, profound
Trom (Truime) - n.m., burden, heavy charge
Trom-laighe (Trom-lighe) - n.f., nightmare
Trostán - n.m., crutch, pilgrim’s staff. A mountain in North Antrim.
Truailleadh - n., corruption
Truas - nm., pity
Trus - v., gather, collect
Tu (Tusa) - pers.pron., thou, thee
Tuagh (Tuaidh, Sparth) - n.m., (Irish) Lochaber axe, battleaxe, commonly used by gallóglaigh
Tuaidh - n., (Scot.) Sparth, Lochaber axe, battleaxe
Tuaisceart - (Irish) n., north
Tuaisceartach - (Irish) adj., n., northern, northerner
Tuar - n.m., color, hue, appearance. Also food, merit, desert.
Tuar - v., deserve, merit, deserving, meriting
Tuath - n.f., adj., adv., the north, north, northern, northward
Tuath - n.f., (old Irish) clan, tribe, family, usually encompassing an average of about 500 sq. miles of territory and about 700 fighting men, also people, tenantry, peasantry, country people, the country or community
Tuatha dé Dannan - prop.n., (old Irish) Tribes of the Fateful Gods, pre-Celtic Irish inhabitants
Tuathal - adv., (old Irish) true, legitimate
Tuathal Techtmar - another rendering of Teutates and Teuto valos, pagan Celtic god..
Tuathanach - nm., a farmer
Tuig - v., understand (tuigsinn)
Tuille - n.m., more, additional quantity or number
Tuir - v., sing or rehearse and elegy, lament for the dead, deplore
Tuireadh - n.m., an elegy, death song, a dirge, lamentation for the dead, mourning, wailing
Tuit - v., fall
Tulach - n.m. knoll, little green eminence
Tulach-dubh-glaise - lit., clean dark (green) hill, chapel at Clonard used by Colum Cille
Tulm (Tolm) - n.f., a knoll or little mound of turf, etc.; eminence
Turlough (Calvach) - (Irish) n.m., Charles
Turlough Ogh - Young Charles. Progenitor of the MacDonnells of Leinster. d.1504
Turthiud - n.m., (Old Irish) a tale
Ua - adj., noble (archaic)
Ua - prefix, grandson
Ua Briain - prop.n., O’Brien
Uaibhreach - adj., proud, haughty.
Uaimh (fochla, pluais) - n.m., a cave
Uaimh Binn - prop.n., Cave of Melody, aka Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa
Uaimh nam Gréine - Cave of the Sun, Newgrange
Uaimh Ruairidh na Seilg - The Cave of Rorrie the Hunter
Uair - n.f., an hour, time, weather, time of day or night
Uairean - nf.pl., hours
Uaireadair - nm., a timepiece, a watch
Uaisle - n.m., nobility, high birth, gentlemanly manners, gentility, liberality
Uamh - n.f., a cave, a den
Uamh - n.m., a chief of savages, terrible fellow
Uamha Fhraing - Cave of Frances, aka Massacre Cave. Famous cave on the Isle of Eigg.
Uamhair - n.m., a caveman, a giant, a robber
Uan - nm., a lamb
Uath- - prefix, expression of dread
Uathach (Tannasg, Bócan) - Spectre, the daughter of Sgáthaich in the legends of Dun Sgáthaich
Uchtach (Misneach, Sprid, Ugach) - n., courage
Ud - dem.pron., yon, yonder
Udal - n.m., distraction for want of a home, wanderer, one who tosses about
Udrich (sidhe) - n., fairy
Ugadale (Norse) - prop.n., Owl’s Glen
Ú
ghdair (Úghdar) - n.m., an authorUi - prefix, (old Irish) descendents of
Uibhist - prop. n., Uist. Translation is undetermined, possibly from Old Norse, meaning "west"
Uibhist A Deas - South Uist
Uibhist A Tuath - North Uist
Ui Chonchobar - prop.n., O’Connor
Uidhir - gen. of odhar. dun colored, brown
Uí Neill Deisceartach - Southern Descendants of Nial of the Just Law. Southern ÓNeill
Uí Neill Tuaisceartach - Northern Descendants of Nial of the Just Law. Northern ÓNeill
Ui Ruaire - prop.n., Descendants of the Strong Man. O’Rourke
Uile - indef.pron., all, every
Uillt’ - n., streams
Uinneag - n.f., a window
Ú
ir - n.f., mould, dust, earth, e.g. grave-mold, also na h-úireach - of mold, moldyUird - gen. and pl. of ord, my hammer, hammers
Uiridh (An uiridh) - adv., last year
Uire (Ur) - adj., new, fresh
Uirigh - n.f. pallet, couch
Uisce beathadh - n., (modern Irish) water of life, whiskey
Uisdein (Aedh, Aodh, Uisdean) - name, Hugh, Celestine
Uisdein nan Eilean - Hugh of The Isles. Younger son of Alasdair, 9th of The Isles and progenitor of the MacDonalds of Sleate.
Uisge - n.m., water, rain, billow, a wave, a river, a stream
Uisge Mìle Sianar - Six Mile Water, a river in North Antrim
Uisgeachan - n.m.pl., waters, rains
Uisge beatha - n.m., (modern Scottish Gaelic) lit. water of life, whisky
Ulaidh - n., (Old Irish) Coicidh of Northern Ireland (Ulster), one of the five fifths of Ireland
Ultach - 1. n.m., an armful of anything, as much as one can carry, a burden 2. n.m. an Ulster man
Unniau - name, Finnian
Ur - adj., over, superior
Ur (Uire) - adj., new, fresh
Ur - poss.pron., your
Urra - n.f., a responsible person, a guarantor, a personage
Urrach - n.m., power, ability
Urraight (oir rioght) - n., sub-chieftain, also tribute due to a chieftain
Urrainn - v., can (is urrainn domh - I can)
Ur righ - n.m., over king
Usquebaugh - n., (colloquial Irish) lit. water of life, whiskey
Uthachd - n.f., suicide, thug
Uthlagh - n.m., outlaw
Whig - n., (Scots, Lallans) horse thief, 1690 political party
Withy - n., (Scots, Lallans) wand, switch
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Vate (Gaelic - Fathi) - n., (Latin) Druid priest who carried out sacrifices to the gods.
Quaire - n., (Scots-Lallans) a noble
Jarl - (Norse) n., Earl
Jarlshof - (Norse) Earl’s house
H - this letter is not acknowledged in the Gáidhlig alphabet, but has grammatical functions. It is the sign of aspiration designating the genitive case and stands before some words beginning with a vowel. In Irish, other words beginning with this letter are of foreign derivation.
h'aon deug - adj., eleven
h'aon deugiú - adj., eleventh
Hardrade - (Old Norse) adj., Hard Ruler
Hearadh - (Norn) prop.n., Harris. Probably from Old Norse "Herad" meaning an administrative district.
Hrólfr - (Norse) - prop.n., name, Rollo
(Gaelic, Irish And Scots Vocabulary)
