R ( ehr ) - v ruis.

rá (ráite) - saying, utterance, adage.

rabhadh - forewarning (of battle, 7rl).

racht - paroxysm.

ráithe (-í) - quarter-year.

rann - stanza, poem.

ráth - 1) earthen ring-fort; 2) surety.

rath - bounty, abundance, riches.

ré - moon (-cycle).

Réalta na bhFile - "Star of the Poets", the throne-room of Teamhair (note, named after the poets who proclaimed there, and not for the king).

réamhfhuireach - bríocht set beforehand which awaits scorán to activate.

rí (-the) - king.

ríastrad - physical and mental distortion-transformation (not shape-shifting) of esp. warrior similar to Norse berserker.

rig - v rí.

ríoghain - queen.

ríon - v ríoghain.

róe - duel, single combat (usually used for armed combat, cf iomarbhá).

rófhis - lit. "Excessive/most knowledge" does not apply to omniscience, but to "as much as you'd want or need", almost always applied to Tuatha Dé Danann and not humans.

rosc (-anna) - 1) eye; 2) a druid rhetoric, i.e. magical incantation; not a set formula but an each use unique (or at least slightly varied) extemporaneous utterance esp. incorporating ilchiallú.

rudach - monotomy in a bríocht or filíocht (generally unacceptable in bríocht but allowable in dícheatal di cheannaibh, qv).

ruis - elder, fiodh for the letter R, associated with, among other things, hosting, secret pathways, healing.

rún - secret (this word has a long ancestry and would appear to be Indo-European and not a Norse borrowing).

rúraíocht - the Ulster cycle.

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