Grimoire Vocabulary — Common Nouns — Places & Things
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| Irish | Ogham | How to say it | English | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teach | ᚛ᚈᚓᚐᚉᚆ᚜ | CHAKH | house | Foclóir | Masculine. House. Plural tithe, irregular. Genitive . |
| áit | ᚛ᚐᚔᚈ᚜ | AW-tch | place | Foclóir | Feminine. A place, in the broadest sense. |
| bóthar | ᚛ᚁᚑᚈᚆᚐᚏ᚜ | BOH-hur | road | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. A road, especially a country road. Older than the modern road network. |
| sráidNorse loan | ᚛ᚄᚏᚐᚔᚇ᚜ | SRAW-dj | street | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. A street. Borrowed from Norse straeti. |
| baile | ᚛ᚁᚐᚔᚂᚓ᚜ | BAL-uh | town/home | Foclóir | Masculine. Both town and home. Abhaile means homeward, the word called out at the end of a session. |
| scoilLatin loanpossession | ᚛ᚄᚉᚑᚔᚂ᚜ | SKULL | school | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. A school. Cognate with Latin schola. |
| leabharLatin loanpossessionOld Irish | ᚛ᚂᚓᚐᚁᚆᚐᚏ᚜ | LYOW-ur | book | eDILGrimoire XI.2 | Masculine. A book. Plural leabhair. Borrowed from Latin liber when the monks brought writing. |
| bordNorse loan | ᚛ᚁᚑᚏᚇ᚜ | BOHRD | table | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. A table. Borrowed from Old English bord, ship’s plank. |
| cathaoir | ᚛ᚉᚐᚈᚆᚐᚑᚔᚏ᚜ | KAH-heer | chair | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. A chair. Once the seat of a ruler; cathaoirleach is still chairperson. |
| doras | ᚛ᚇᚑᚏᚐᚄ᚜ | DUR-us | door | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. A door. The same word in every Goidelic language. |
| fuinneogNorse loan | ᚛ᚃᚒᚔᚅᚅᚓᚑᚌ᚜ | FIN-yohg | window | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. A window. From Old Norse vindauga, wind-eye. |
| uisce | ᚛ᚒᚔᚄᚉᚓ᚜ | ISH-kuh | water | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. Water. The first half of uisce beatha, water of life, which English borrowed as whiskey. |
| bia | ᚛ᚁᚔᚐ᚜ | BEE-uh | food | Foclóir | Masculine. Food. Cognate with the Latin vita. |
| arán | ᚛ᚐᚏᚐᚅ᚜ | uh-RAWN | bread | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. Bread. Stress on the second syllable, the fada-marked one. |
| bainne | ᚛ᚁᚐᚔᚅᚅᚓ᚜ | BAN-uh | milk | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. Milk. |
| taeEnglish loan | ᚛ᚈᚐᚓ᚜ | TAY | tea | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. Tea. Borrowed from English in the eighteenth century when the leaf arrived. |
| airgead | ᚛ᚐᚔᚏᚌᚓᚐᚇ᚜ | AR-ih-gud | money | Foclóir | Masculine. Money, also silver. The same word covers both wealth and the metal. |
| obair | ᚛ᚑᚁᚐᚔᚏ᚜ | UB-ur | work | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. Work, also the verbal noun of oibrigh. Tá mé ag obair, I am working. |
| lá | ᚛ᚂᚐ᚜ | LAW | day | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. Day. Plural laethanta, irregular. |
| oíche | ᚛ᚑᚔᚉᚆᚓ᚜ | EE-huh | night | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. Night. Pronounced EE-huh, the ch nearly silent. |
| am | ᚛ᚐᚋ᚜ | AWM | time | Grimoire XI.2 | Masculine. Time, in the abstract sense. |
| carrEnglish loan | ᚛ᚉᚐᚏᚏ᚜ | KAR | car | Foclóir | Masculine. A car. Borrowed late and naturalized fully. |
| litir | ᚛ᚂᚔᚈᚔᚏ᚜ | LIT-ir | letter | Grimoire XI.2 | Feminine. A letter. Plural litreacha. Both the alphabetical kind and the postal kind. |