A spouse, according to Brehon Law, but a term which most usually denoted the chief wife; wife of highest legal standing.

Family group of four generations comprising one person, ie. the grandfather of the individual, and his father, his brothers, their children, his paternal uncles, and their children and grandchildren.

Inheritable property of a deceased person, according to Brehon Law.

Mother's kin or tribe; maternal kinsfolk.

One come form overseas; a foreigner, often distinguished from a deoraid (who has been exiled).

A technical term for the hereditary serf or villain who holds a parcel of land in return for uncertain services and is adscriptous glebae, passing as an appurtenance should the land be alienated.

Land which is the hereditary possession of a 'fine'.

Literature » Historical Usage A single line in a four-line verse.

Literature (Irish) syllabic poetry; strict syllabic verse.

Literature comic genre comprising prose and verse in syllabic snéadhbhairdne metre

Literature » Historical Usage imperfect rhyme requiring identity of vowels and agreement of consonants in quality

Literature perfect rhyme requiring identity of vowels and agreement of consonants in class and quality

Literature series of alliterating words unrelieved by either lenition or eclipsis

Literature closure of poem in syllabic metre through repetition of opening phrase, word, syllable, or letter at end of poem

Literature last word of poem repeating first word; binding quatrain of poem

Literature a dialogue in song with a refrain between verses

Literature loose syllabic metre

Literature the first word of a rhyming end-pair in deibhidhe metre

Literature rhyme (in deibhidhe metre) between stressed syllable at end of line and unstressed syllable of longer word at end of following line

Literature (type of) rhetorical verse composition; rhapsodical chant; (Early Irish) alliterative verse

Literature (title of) collection of ancient Irish law-tracts

Literature poem consisting of three syllabic quatrains and a quatrain in stressed metre

Literature second word of rhyming end-pair in deibhidhe metre, one syllable longer than its rhyming partner

Literature metrical embellishment involving repeated vowel patterns and/or multiple rhymes between identical words

Literature syllabic verse on the pattern of dán díreach, with equally stringent rules, but allowing simpler forms of rhyme

Literature a form of metre (common in elegies)

Abbreviation made up of the initial letters of the components of the full form of the designation or from syllables of the full form and pronounced syllabically