N



N ( ehn ) - v nion.

namhaid (naimhde) - enemy

naofa - sacred (adj.).

naoi - nine, number of gestalten, inherent completion and return.

naomh - lit. "Ninefold-one", sacred (person or thing).

naomhaidhe - ninefold of days, esp. the period after which danger has passed.

naonúr - a ninefold of persons.

Naoú Tonn, an - The Ninth Wave (of Eternal Return).

nasc - binding (one thing to another), link.

nascaire - lit. "link-attention"; state of perception in which data are patterned, events flow, time expands (cf mionaire).

nath (-a) - cant-word, (as plural) skill in adages.

nathair (nathracha) - snake.

neach - being, person, irregardless of sex, used as "neach Sídhe".

néaladóireacht - 1) divination by clouds; 2) furtively spying.

néallta fola - "Clouds of Blood", invocation of slaughter.

neamh - v farraige 7rl.

neamhshaolta - "otherworldly", magically intrusive into the mundane, used only as adjective/adverb, generally with or without explicitly intending an Saol Eile.

neart - power, strength, both physically and magically.

Neart inár lámha, fírinne ar ár dteanga, glaine inár gcroí. - "strength in our arms, truth on our tongue, clarity in our heart", definition of fianna honor (several minor variants exist).

Néide - youth who contested in iomarbhá to claim the supremacy of poet-druids of Ulster (qv Immacallam).

neidín - "little nest", a power-spot of rest or general safety.

neimheadh - 1) outdoor sanctuary; 2) more loosely, any person, thing inviolable as sacred.

Nemed - v Lebor Gabála.

ní hanasa - "Not difficult", a standard beginning to answering a question requiring expert knowledge.

ní heisce gan ríga gúasacht báis - maxim that a king (or any political leader) must always occupy the position of greatest danger in any battle in which his people take part.

níghe - washing, ritually done already regalia'd, not as cleansing, but as "crossing" into ritual space (cf ling thar tine cnámh).

nion - ash-tree, fiodh for the letter N, associated with, among other things, battle, asceticism, prudence.

nuáil - (generally acceptable) innovation.



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