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An Liagh i n-Eirinn i n-allod III & IV: De Febrium Symptomatibus (Author: [unknown])

VOCABULARY

This vocabulary combines the parts from Lia Fáil III, 123–125 and IV, 265–268. Original page-breaks are omitted.

Numbers after each word refer to paragraph where it first occurs. {In part 3, these were not indicated]: The first word=headword; the second word=English equivalent; last word=Latin translation from RA.

  1. adhairt; pillow; pulvinar. 37.
  2. adarc; adharc cupping horn; ventosa, cucurbitula. [part 3], 28.
  3. adhann; coltsfoot; portacula. [part 3]
  4. adhbar; matter; materia. [part 3]
  5. ae abha; liverwort; hepaticon. [part 3]
  6. aerdha; principal; principalis. 30.
  7. agairc; agaric; agaricus. [part 3]
  8. aibeil; quick; velociter. 7.
  9. aicid; accident (of fever); accidens. [part 3]
  10. aicisis; paroxysm; accessus, paroxysmus. [part 3]
  11. aigean; pan; patella. [part 3]
  12. aigeid; vinegar; acetum. [part 3]
  13. ailt; = ail leat. 27.
  14. ailledigim; I mention, recount; allego. [part 3]
  15. aineid; anetho; anethum. 1.
  16. ainis; anise; anisum. 14.
  17. airgib, airgibh; temples (dpl. of ara, arach); tempora. [part 3]
  18. alga; apthous sore (in the mouth); ulcus, scissura. [part 3]
  19. algus bidh; appetite; desire for food; appetitus. 14.
  20. mialgua; disinclination. 19.
  21. anbainne craidhe; syncope; faintness. [part 3]
  22. andibhi; endive; endivia. [part 3]
  23. ard; high-coloured (of urine); tincta. 24.
  24. athair losa; ground ivy; hedera terrestris. 7.
  25. atcomall; dropsy; hydrops. 10. v. idroipis.
  26. atharrach; change, variation. [part 3]
  27. bainne almont; milk of almonds; lac amygdalarum. [part 3]
  28. baluaird; wallwort; cameactus ebulus. 3.
  29. beirene; verbena; verbena. [part 3]
  30. beithe; box tree; buxus. [part 3]
  31. benedicta (herba); a mild laxative, 1.
  32. berbeiris; barberry; berberis. [part 3]
  33. bilar gharrda; (garden cress); nasturtium hortense (=lepidum sativum) . [part 3]
  34. binid mhil; hare's rennet; coagulum leporis. [part 3]
  35. bithnua; St. John's Wort; hypericon. [part 3]
  36. bitoine; betony; betonica. [part 3]
  37. bolg gachann; smith's bellows; flabellum. 15.
  38. bolgach; smallpox; varioli. 27.
  39. bolgam; mouthful. 34.
  40. borraitsi; borrage; borrago. 5.
  41. breith; womb; matrix. 19.
  42. brigh tochlaitheach; digestive force; (virtus digestiva). [part 3]
  43. bruidearnach; irritation; punctura. 25.
  44. buaidhirte; turbid, troubled; turbidus. 49.
  45. buathfallan; buathfallan liath; mugwort, ragweed; artemisia. 1.
  46. buidhen uighi; yolk of egg; vitelli ovorum. [part 3]
  47. cabann; capon; caponem. 46.
  48. cabson; causon, an inflammatory fever,; causon. [part 3]
  49. cadhas; cotton; cottum. 32.
  50. caibdel; custard; candellum A misreading for caudellum; see footnote. 42.
  51. Calamus aromaticus; sweet flag. 14.
  52. cail; quality; (qualitas). [part 3]
  53. caindi; candy. [part 3]
  54. cainel; cinnamon; cinnamomum. [part 3]
  55. camamilla; camomile; camomillae. 1.
  56. cardamomum; cardamom. 15.
  57. cartana; quartan fever; quartana (febris). [part 3]
  58. cassia fistola; pod of a species of herbs, highly laxative (Golden rain tree); Cassia fistula. 5.
  59. ceangal; constipation; (constipatio). [part 3]
  60. cearchaill; pillow; pulvinar. [part 3]
  61. ceirin; poultice, plaster; emplastrum. 2.
  62. claethmodh, claethmuighim; vn. change; I change. (also claoch-, claech-.) [part 3]
  63. cliathanaib; chest, ribs; sub hypochondriis. [part 3]
  64. clisdire tarraingtheach; an attractive clyster; clyster attractivus. [part 3]
  65. clobus; cloves; garyophylli. 14.
  66. cnamh; consuming; consumption 1.
  67. cneadh; sore, wound; ulcus; vulnus. 36.
  68. cneasuigheach, cneasugad; healing, to heal; consolidatio. 1.
  69. coileardha; choleric; (cholericus). [part 3]
  70. coilera eruginosa; cholera aeruginosa, a form of choleric humour; (see footnote). [part 3]
  71. coilera praisina; cholera prassina; a form of choleric humour; (see footnote). [part 3]
  72. coimbris; bruise (imperative). [part 3]
  73. coinneall Mhuire; great mullein; molena. [part 3]
  74. copiros; vitreolum. 31.
  75. coimplex202; complexion; complexio. The combination of certain qualifies hot, cold, moist and dry, in an animal body determining its nature. 28, 40; drochcoimplex bad complexion 27.
  76. coriandra; coriander. (coriandrum) 13.
  77. cosa scoiltithe; pedes fissi. 41.
  78. crim muc fiadh; hart's tongue; scolopendria. 42.
  79. crith ger; ague. 8.
  80. cristall; crystal; cristallus. [part 3]
  81. cruach Padraig; plantain; plantago. [part 3]
  82. cruad; flint; silex. 35. cf. slind.
  83. crual, cruel; coral; corallus. 14 [and part 3]
  84. cubranach; frothy. 22.
  85. cuideog; flies; cantharides. 10.
  86. cuilen; whelp; catulus. [part 3]
  87. cuisle an cind; cephalic vein; cephalica (vena). [part 3]
  88. cuimin; cumin; cyminum. [part 3]
  89. cumsanad; rest; quies. 44.
  90. curradan; horsetail; cauda equina. 33.
  91. dabach; vat; tina. 24.
  92. dairgin; germander; chamadreos. 43.
  93. daorgalar; piles; tenesmus. [part 3]
  94. deannach muilind; mill dust. 4.
  95. dedga; centaury; centaurium. 1.
  96. deoch athraitheach; alterative drink. [part 3]
  97. desgridech; discreet. 14
  98. diaturbith; compound medicine made of turpeth, cf. diasene, diareubarbrum, etc. 51.
  99. digbail; declinatio, the final stage in a fever. 44.
  100. domblas ae; gall, gallbladder; fel. 3.
  101. dragma; drachm, dram; (dragma). [part 3]
  102. driuch; shudder; horripilatio. 25. cf. greand.
  103. drochbrucht; sour eructation; eructationes. 50.
  104. duadar; (bad) smell. 49.
  105. duainneadh; fontanelle; commissura capitis. [part 3].
  106. dubchosach; maidenhair; capillus veneris. 8.
  107. dubhan; kidney; renes. [part 3]
  108. duinti; oppilation [part 3]
  109. eanbruithe; soup, broth; brodeum. 1
  110. eang; a strip [part 3]
  111. easbaidh ceille; delirium?; alienalio mentis [part 3]
  112. easguman; eel; anguilla. [part 3]
  113. easlainte adburda; material sickness; morbus materialis. 19.
  114. eillind; elecampane; enula. 35
  115. fadarcan; knot in wood. 13.
  116. faisgeathrach; nausea. 44.
  117. faothagad; crisis; crisis. 21.
  118. fasdadh; constipation; constipatio ventris. 1.
  119. feineal; fennel; faeniculum (foeniculum, feniculum). [part 3]
  120. fearad; faeces; egestio. 24.
  121. fiabras ger; acute fever, aguefebris acuta [part 3]
  122. follamnugad; ruling (i.e. health management and diet); regimen. 25.
  123. frenisis; frenzy, phrenesis [part 3]
  124. fual; urine; urina. 8.
  125. fuil dearg; sanguine humour; one of the four humours.
  126. fuil dregan; dragon's blood; sanguis draconis. [part 3]
  127. gaethmhaireacht; flatulence; ventositas. [part 3]
  128. gafann; henbane; iusquiamus (= hyoscyamus) 31.
  129. gailingein; galingale (= galangal); galanga. 14.
  130. gairfideach; a twisting of the bowels, Census of Ireland for the year 1851 1. (For this information I am indebted to Mr. Seamus O'Cassidy.) 27.
  131. gairleog; garlic; allium. 19.
  132. galar buidhe; jaundice; icterus. 8.
  133. gallunach; soap; sapo. 2.
  134. garbhlus; goosegrass; rubia minor. An leg. madder? (Cf. ‘rubia maior .i. an madra,’ Stokes, On the Materia Medica of the mediaeval Irish, Revue Celtique 9, p. 240.) [part 3]
  135. gealan uighi; white of egg; albumen ovis. [part 3]
  136. ginaidh; gluttony; gulositas. 48.
  137. glac; handful; manipulus. 8.
  138. glae; glue; refer to glutinativa. 30
  139. glaisin caille; boglus; boglossa. 5.
  140. grainde; grain, seed; grana. [part 3]
  141. greann; rigor [part 3]
  142. greannugad; irritation; provoco; cf. greann; rigor; v. driuch.
  143. hocus; mallows; malvos. 1.
  144. idroipis; v. atcomall.
  145. imlacan; navel; umbilicus. [part 3]
  146. inde ieiunum; the jejunum; jejunum. 1.
  147. indles; meal. 5.
  148. ira pigra, hiera pikra; a remedy composed of various drugs. (Cf. note p. 119.) [part 3]
  149. iubar craige; juniper; iuniperus. 3.
  150. iubar sleibhe; wild sage; eupatorium. 9.
  151. labriola; laurel; lauri. 4.
  152. lacach; loose, relaxed [part 3]
  153. lanleighe; cochlear; cochleare: liquid measure = one tablespoonful; cochleare amplum = one fluid ounce. 7. Cf. leathleighe etc. cochleare mediocre203
  154. leadartach; gripes?; torsio. [part 3]
  155. leagan (botany), tansy; leagan (medicine), reduction. 2.
  156. leas; bladder; vesica. 20.
  157. leathog; flat fish, flounder; merlingus. 42.
  158. lectuaire; electuary; electuarium. [part 3]
  159. letus; lettuce; lactuca. [part 3]
  160. liathlus; mouse-ear; pilosellla. 9.
  161. lignum aloes; aloes, lign aloes. 3.
  162. linn dubh; melancholy. [part 3]
  163. linn fuar; phlegm. [part 3]
  164. linn ruadh; choler; one of the four humours. 1 (Cf. fuil dearg)
  165. litairgia; lethargy. 22.
  166. loisgeach; burning; pungitivus. 1.
  167. lubra; leprosy or other skin disease; lepra. 19.
  168. lus; leek; porrum. 19.
  169. lus an leadan; tansy; virga pastoris. 3.
  170. lus in sparain; shepherd's purse; sanguinaria, cf. lus na fola. [part 3]
  171. magralla; genitals; testiculi. [part 3]
  172. mailis; malice; malignitas. [part 3]
  173. maistix; mastiche; mastix. [part 3]
  174. masal; mazer ( N.E.D.); mazenus. 46.
  175. mathair thalman; millefolium. 37. v. athair t.
  176. meirsi; smallage; apium. 9.
  177. mercuiriel; the plant mercury; mercurialus. 1.
  178. merolaini beileiritsi; belliric myrobalans; myrobalani bellerici. [part 3]204
  179. merolaini inndi; myrobalans; myrobalani indici. [part 3]
  180. merolaini cebulli; myrobalans; myrobalani chebuli. [part 3]
  181. merolaini sitrini; myrobalans; myrobalani citrini. [part 3]
  182. methrad; fat; adeps, pinguedo. 1.
  183. miniugad; reducing, lessening; minuere. 1.
  184. midhaighi; also midhaigh, midhaidh, mighaigh(e)) nightshade; solatrum. [part 3]
  185. misaidhi; wild fiax; linaria. 8.
  186. miseraidci uena; meseraic vein (= mesenteric vein); meseracia vena. [part 3]
  187. moduracht; depression, gloom; tristitia. 61.
  188. morgadh; corruption; corruptio. [part 3]
  189. mormont; wormwood; absynthium. 1.
  190. muchadh na breithe; suffocation of the uterus; suffocatio matricis. [part 3]
  191. neantog; nettle; urtica. 17.
  192. neasgoid; boil; apostema. [part 3]205
  193. niamhain; pearl; margarita. [part 3]
  194. niamnaid; tormentil; potentilla tormentilla. [part 3]
  195. nutamug; nutmeg; nux moscata. [part 3]
  196. oisrida; oysters; ostrea. 43.
  197. oxisacra; a concoctio of oximel.206 13.
  198. pairitari; parietory, pellitory; paritaria. 19. v. peledra.
  199. pastae; paste, pastry; pasta. 40.
  200. peledra; pellitory; pyrethrum. 18. v. pairitari.
  201. perbingc; periwinkle; pervinca (=vinca pervinca; vinca spp.). 35.
  202. pertrais; partridge; perdrix = perdix207. [part 3]
  203. pibrachas; nasturtium. 35.
  204. pibrair; nasturtium. [part 3]
  205. pic; pitch; pix. [part 3]
  206. pilloili; pills; pilula. 11.
  207. pingin; penny; ducatum. [part 3]
  208. pioini; peony; paeonia. [part 3]
  209. poball; butterburr (Petasites hybridus). 30.
  210. poire; pore; porus. 16.
  211. ponaire; bean; faba. 10.
  212. potaitsi; pottage; brodeum. [part 3]
  213. praisech; cabbage; caules. 5.
  214. raibe uisge; raibhi uisge [part 3], water rue; nenuphar. 39.
  215. rais; rice; oryza. [part 3]
  216. rannaidhi; local; particularis. 27.
  217. reithe; ram; aries. [part 3]
  218. ros lin; flax seed; semen lini. 17.
  219. sabhsa; sauce; salsamentum. 15.
  220. sail cuach; violet; viola. 1.
  221. saitsi; sage; salvia. [part 3]
  222. samadh; sorrel; acedula. [part 3]
  223. sandaili; sandalwood, sanders; santala. 8. v. triasanduile
  224. scamonia; scammony; (Convolvulus scammonia). [part 3]
  225. scim; polypody; pollipodium. 4.
  226. sdaid; stasis, the third stage of a fever. 17.
  227. sdipeaga ( also sdipeaca) 30 etc; styptic; styptica. [part 3]
  228. sealg; spleen; (lien). [part 3]
  229. seilidonia; swallow-wort; chelidonia. 8.
  230. sgeathrach; vomiting; vomitus. 13.
  231. sicne; membrane, skin; peritoneum. 13.
  232. sidhubal; setwall; zedoaria. 13.
  233. singcoipis; syncope. [part 3]
  234. sisan; tisane; ptisana. 43.
  235. sitheal; basin, pelvis. [part 3]
  236. slind; flint; silex. 32. cf. cruad.
  237. siucra roiseaca; sugar of roses. [part 3]
  238. snas iboiri; ivory turnings; rasura eboris. 8.
  239. spica nairdi; spikenard; spica nardi. 8.
  240. spiursi; spurge; tithumalli. 3.
  241. spongc; sponge; spongia. [part 3]
  242. stupog: coarse part of stalk of cabbage or similar plant (...) (Gr. stúpé; cf. stup, 23 F 19 buaicis ‘cum stuppis canabis’)
  243. subeth; lethargy; profunditas somni similis lethargo. 37.
  244. sumag; chopped leaves of genus Rhus, sumach. 27.
  245. supoisitoir; suppository; suppositorium. 3.
  246. surrumont; southernwood; abrotanum. 1.
  247. tairisecht; trust, confidence. 51.
  248. tamareind; tamarind; tamarind. [part 3]
  249. tartaire; tartary?; lus in sparain. [part 3]
  250. tathaba; hellebore, dropwort; helleborus. 4.
  251. teagail; an t-seagail sgs. rye; (secale). [part 3]
  252. teinegail; houseleek; sempervivum tectorum. [part 3]
  253. timtireacht; anus; anus. [part 3]
  254. tochlugad; appetite; appetitus. 15.
  255. tondmar; undulating; undosus. 23.
  256. tuis; incense; olibanum? [part 3]
  257. tus; incense; thus. 3
  258. triasanduile; concoction of sanders. 8. v. sandaile.
  259. trom; elder; sambucus. 4.
  260. truailnithe; corrupt, pestilential. 39. cf. truaillnead.208
  261. uball gornel; pomegranate; malum granatum. [part 3]
  262. uball searbh na caille; crab-apple?; poma sylvestris. [part 3]
  263. uilidhe; universal; universalis. 24.
  264. uirge; testicles; testiculi. 27.
  265. unsa; ounce; uncia. 32. The mediaeval Irish scribes used the usual sign for this, which is a debased form of [illegible symbol]. This sign is not known outside Ireland.
  266. urcoid; harm, injury; nocentia. 9.