Irish Ogham

Morainn mac Moín: féochos foltchain "withered foot with fine hair"

Maic ind Óc: glaisem cnis "greyest of skin"

Con Culainn: maise malach "beauty of the eyebrow"

Morainn mac Moín: lí súla "lustre of the eye"

Maic ind Óc: carae cethrae "friend of cattle"

Con Culainn: lúth cethrae "sustenance of cattle"

Notes: Old Irish either related to luise "blaze" or lus "herb". Luis is the name of the rowan tree in old Irish.

Morainn mac Moín: airenach fían "vanguard of warriors"

Maic ind Óc: comét lachta "milk container"

Con Culainn: dín cridi "protection of the heart"

Notes: alder was used to make shields and vessels containing liquid

Morainn mac Moín: lí ambi "pallor of a lifeless one"

Maic ind Óc: lúth bech "sustenance of bees"

Con Culainn: tosach mela "beginning of honey"

Morainn mac Moín: costud síde "establishing of peace"

Maic ind Óc: bág ban "boast of women"

Con Culainn: bág maise "boast of beauty"

Notes: Old Irish means either "fork" or "loft".

Morainn mac Moín: condál cúan "assembly of packs of hounds"

Maic ind Óc: bánad gnúise "blanching of faces"

Con Culainn: ansam aidche "most difficult at night"

Notes: Old Irish means "horror, fear"

Morainn mac Moín: ardam dosae "highest tree"

Maic ind Óc: grés soír "handicraft of a craftsman"

Con Culainn: slechtam soíre "most carved of craftsmanship"

Morainn mac Moín: trian roith "one of three parts of a wheel"

Maic ind Óc: smiur gúaile "marrow of (char)coal"

Con Culainn: trian n-airm "one of three parts of a weapon"

Notes: Old Irish means "bar of metal, ingot"

Morainn mac Moín: caíniu fedaib "fairest tree"

Maic ind Óc: carae blóesc "friend of nutshells"

Con Culainn: milsem fedo "sweetest tree"

Morainn mac Moín: clithar baiscill "shelter of a [lunatic?]"

Maic ind Óc: bríg anduini "substance of an insignificant person"

Con Culainn: dígu fethail "dregs of clothing"

Notes: Old Irish Cert is cognate with Welsh perth "bush", Latin quercus "oak" (PIE *perkwos). It was confused with Old Irish ceirt "rag", reflected in the kennings. Ceirt may possibly be an obsolete name for an apple tree (Graves, Limerick, 1846).

Morainn mac Moín: tressam fedmae "strongest in exertion"

Maic ind Óc: árusc n-airlig "proverb of slaughter"

Con Culainn: conar gotha "path of the voice"

Notes: Old Irish Muin: the kennings connect this name to three different words, muin "neck, upper part of the back", muin "wile, ruse", and muin "love, esteem".

Morainn mac Moín: milsiu féraib "sweetest grass"

Maic ind Óc: ined erc "suitable place for cows"

Con Culainn: sásad ile "sating of multitudes"

Notes: Old Irish Gort means "field" (cognate to garden)

Morainn mac Moín: lúth lego "sustenance of a leech"

Maic ind Óc: étiud midach "raiment of physicians"

Con Culainn: tosach n-échto "beginning of slaying"

Notes: Old Irish Gétal from the kennings has a meaning of "killing", maybe cognate to gonid "slays", from PIE gwen-. The value of the letter in Primitive Irish, then, was a voiced labiovelar, [ɡʷ]. The arboreal tradition glosses cilcach, "broom" or "fern".

Morainn mac Moín: tressam rúamnai "strongest reddening (dye)"

Maic ind Óc: mórad rún "increase of secrets"

Con Culainn: saigid nél "seeking of clouds"

Notes: Old Irish Straiph means "sulphur". The Primitive Irish letter value is uncertain, it may have been a sibilant different from s, which is taken by sail, maybe a reflex of /st/ or /sw/. The arboreal tradition glosses draighin "blackthorn".

Morainn mac Moín: tindem rucci "most intense blushing"

Maic ind Óc: rúamnae drech "reddening of faces"

Con Culainn: bruth fergae "glow of anger"

Notes: Old Irish Ruis means "red" or "redness", glossed as trom "elder". If "rhys" is the Welsh word for "privet", might be this.

Morainn mac Moín: ardam íachta "loudest groan"

Maic ind Óc: tosach frecrai "beginning of an answer"

Con Culainn: tosach garmae "beginning of calling"

Notes: Old Irish is of uncertain meaning, possibly "pine-tree". Limerick (1846) points to the possibility of "palm", though it is not an Irish tree.

Morainn mac Moín: congnaid ech "wounder of horses"

Maic ind Óc: féthem soíre "smoothest of craftsmanship"

Con Culainn: lúth fían "[equipment] of warrior bands"

Notes: "onn" was the name for "ash" in Welsh & Breton

Morainn mac Moín: úaraib adbaib "in cold dwellings"

Maic ind Óc: sílad cland "propagation of plants"

Con Culainn: forbbaid ambí "shroud of a lifeless one"

Notes: Old Irish Úr, based on the kennings, means "earth, clay, soil"

Morainn mac Moín: érgnaid fid "discerning tree"

Maic ind Óc: commaín carat "exchange of friends"

Con Culainn: bráthair bethi "brother of birch"

Notes: Old Irish Edad of unknown meaning.

Morainn mac Moín: sinem fedo "oldest tree"

Maic ind Óc: caínem sen "fairest of the ancients"

Con Culainn: lúth lobair "energy of an infirm person"

Notes: Old Irish Idad is of uncertain meaning.