faisiún Oblómov: is tagairt é seo d'Oblómov, an príomhlaoch ins an úrscéal a scríobh an clasaiceach Rúiseach, Gointsearov. Leisceoir a bhí in Oblómov a chaitheadh na laetha ag déanamh a scíste agus ag fanúint sa bhaile gan ach fallaing shíoda air.
fóideoga a bhaint to start a conversation
Cuitilíocht is my own attempt to create an Irish name for the Lovecraftian Cthulhu mythos. Cf. Artúraíocht = King Arthur's stories; Fiannaíocht = Fenian stories; Rúraíocht = Ulster cycle
bréagshanasaíocht folk etymology
ar comhfhuaimniú sounding the same in pronunciation
ag dul anonn sna blianta getting older
dúisitheach suggestive
cosmach cosmic(al)
na Seanóirí Móra the Great Old Ones
céimseata geometry
réaltbhuíon constellation (of stars)
deasghnáthaí ceremonies, rituals
adharcán tentacle; feeler
seantaicí (Lovecraft-speak) shantaks, a kind of fantasy bird
ramallae dubh a dhéanamh to become black slime. Déanamh can, idiomatically, mean "to become, to turn into sth", too: Máirtín Ó Cadhain's short story Ag Déanamh Páipéir can be interpreted either as "Making Paper" or "Turning into Paper".
cultas cult
imeacht le ceann sreinge to run wild, to have free rein
fáil réitithe de to get rid of
íoladhradh, gen. íoladhartha idolatry
scairp scorpion; An Scairp Scorpio (zodiac)
daonchosúil human, looking like a human being
ionathar bowels, intestines
sreangscéal telegramme
éabhlóid evolution
tríthoiseach three-dimensional
seitgháirí sniggering laughter
túis incense, frankincense
ábhartha material (ADJ)
corpartha corporal
ag dul in anás scamhaird starting to feel the need for nutriment, becoming able to experience hunger
anás need, want
scamhard nutrition, nourishment. This word is part of the standard, but I have actually only come upon it in Munster Irish as part of natural dialect. It is true that Foclóir Póca recommends the pronunciation [skau@rd], but in Munster it has a long vowel before -ard: [sk@'va:rd]. Thus, it might be advisable to pronounce it as [skaua:rd] or suchlike in standard Irish or the more central dialects.
fadálach long-suffering
bhí sé barúlach he was of the opinion
réamhstairiúil pre-historic
ceap/ceapadh means usually "to think", but especially in the north, the meaning "catch, stop, capture" is common. Even in other languages, the semantic development to catch -> to understand is common.
tátal a bhaint as rud to conclude
fiosraigh/fiosrú to enquire
dospíonta inexhaustible
Heilléineachas Hellenism
deacán - the Finnish word is dekaani. I think it means the ten brightest stars of a constellation.
an Saigheadóir Sagittarius. The zodiacal signs are in Irish as follows:
| Aries | An Reithe |
| Taurus | An Tarbh |
| Gemini | An Cúpla |
| Cancer | An Portán |
| Leo | An Leon |
| Virgo | An Mhaighdean |
| Libra | An Mheá |
| Scorpio | An Scairp |
| Sagittarius | An Saighdeoir |
| Capricorn | An Gabhar |
| Aquarius | An tUisceadóir |
| Pisces | Na hÉisc |
The zodiac is in Irish an stoidiaca, a constellation is réaltbhuíon, and it should also be noted that the constellation Orion is in Irish An Bodach. Funnily enough, belief in astrological influences upon man is in Irish expressed usually by using the word pláinéad, especially the unlucky star is frequently called (droch)p(h)láinéad. Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, in fact, called the Sun an pláinéad beannaithe, the blessed planet. He seems to have had little idea of astronomy.
It might be worth pointing out that the new astronomical dictionary suggests Iompróir an Uisce as the Irish for Aquarius. This is as may be, but in my opinion, An tUisceadóir has wide currency and there is no real need for another term. In fact, Iompróir an Uisce is a too obvious translation of the English Water-bearer.
fuinneamh síceach "psychic energy"; a pseudo-scientific term, of course. The writer of the short story is actually a prominent member of Finnish skeptics.
tá sé ag cur le seo...well, leis seo would be the standard, but Ulster writers have this curious way of writing le seo, le sin, le siúd. I am not sure if it is a simple orthographical quirk or if it has some significance for the pronunciation. But anyway, cur le has many meanings, and here we have what means "it is consistent with this".
seachmall hallucination
fóidín mearaí a haunted place, where you might go astray
samhailteach imaginary