| carthanacht | love, charity; friendliness, friendship | |
| sprionlóir | skinflint; mean, miserly person | |
| neamaitheach | disobliging; useless, fruitless | |
| saint | greed, avarice | |
| ar éadromacht | touched in the head, crazy | |
| cruáil | hardship, adversity; cruelty (le); stinginess | |
| scéigh | tell the story(?) | |
| cléithe = cliath (ar stoca) | darn | |
| each | steed. "ar iompáil (iompú) na n-each tig (tagann) athrach na scéal." With the turn of the steed comes a different story. | |
| athrach | change, alteration | |
| ná codail ar an gcluais sin | don't content yourself with that version of the story; don't delude yourself. | |
| go ráineodh | that it should happen (ráinigh) | |
| fiacha | debt, obligation | |
| dáltha an chait | like the cat, circumstances/conditions of the cat | |
| beirthe nó caillte | won or lost | |
| fónta | sound, useful, adequate, dependable | |
| feallaire | deceiver, betrayer | |
| fios aitheanta | accepted knowledge |