Dictionary Entries

cambaí

bhí cambaí ann (MC); na cambaí daoiní (a host of fairies) ar a' tsraith sin ar chúl a' droichidín (Wm) crowd(s), host(s)

deabhal

in the alliterative doublet deabhal ná deamhan / diún/ devil

brocach

tá d'éadan bróch brocach salach dirty, filthy

grabhar

droch-mhóin (éadrom, geal), often with heather growing from the sod; it goes in dust

géarán

eye-tooth: cláir-fhiaclaí go dté tú go dtí an géarán

agus d'imigh sé ina mheadhair tine

he went into a (ball?) of fire

agus thug sé aithinneacha na tine

and he brought the flames of the fire

Fadaígí tine mhaith ansin

ye set a good fire there

naoinán

baby in the cradle (up to about 1)

sna áit ina bhfuil na clocha geala

in the the place where there are the bright stones

ghearrfeadh siad na cláratha

they would cut the boards

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