G



G ( gay ) - v giúis.

- need, requirement; cf gáu.

gabhlairdeall - "forked attention", division of consciousness, esp. during somhoill.

gad - marker attached to object as evidence of claim.

gaeilge - the Irish language the correct English is "Irish"; while "Gaelic" includes Scots and Manx).

gaeilgeoireacht - (act or study of) speaking Irish.

gáeth - v gaoth.

gall (gaill) - person of foreign affinity.

gallán - standing stone.

gaol (-ta) - person of kindred affinity.

gaoth - 1) wind; 2) estuary; 3) wise.

garmheas - convenient judgment, approximate opinion, pragmatic (but not exact) estimation, temporary "make-do" technique (cf cóngar).

garrán - grove.

gáu - 1) injustice; 2) falsehood.

geal - bright, pure.

gealach - moon.

geantraí - harp strain to (magically) induce laughter.

geasán - mini-geas, esp. self-imposed, to perform only once.

geilt (-e) - madman living in wilds, shunning others, with shaman-like magical powers (cf díthreabhach).

geis (geasa) - magically bound injuncture or duty, individual and contextual, having force of dán, explicitly not a taboo since many geasa required the person bound to perform, not avoid, the required activity.

giorria - hare.

giúis - pine, fiodh for the letter G, associated with, among other things, social responsibility, valor.

glám díceann - short exhibitionistic (magical) satire.

gléas - arrangement, means, facilities, instrument, tool, dress, preparation.

gnách - mundane, common.

gnáth - customary thing or action.

go gcumhdaí is dtreoraí na déithe thú - "May the gods guard and guide you".

goirmín - woad.

goltraí - harp strain to (magically) induce weeping.

gorm - blue, associated with protection and magic.

Greallach Dallaid - Mire of Blindness, hidden sanctuary.

gréasán - 1) web, network; 2) tangle, complication; 3) (esp. single) knot work or spiral motif.

grian - sun.

grianchloch - "sun-stone" (quartz).

grinnaitint - lit.” discerning recognition": 1) recognition of thing's or event's truth nature; 2) directed perception to (attempt to) obtain the first.

grinnthoil - lit. "Lucid intent"; directed consciousness to influence event, thing, or person, with or without communication of data.

gruagach - "hairy-head", magical being in (esp. human) disguise, used sarcastically of would-be wizard.

gruaim - despond, dejection, self-pity.

gúbreatha - false judgment, v gáu.



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