Table of the tree names and ‘ranking’ in the Auraicept following Fenius and Ogma

Font Times new Roman thin : Fenius’ Ogam (4 groups)

Font Book Antiqua fat : Ogma’s Ogam (3 groups claimed, two explicitely given)

In parentheses Ogma’s grouping of trees when it differs from Fenius’. All the trees named by Ogma also are by Fenius. When no tree name is given in the font Book Antiqua, this means it is not in Ogma’s list.

Irish	Calder’s translation	Comments on the Irish words
airigh (aire) n-airigh	Chieftain trees Chieftain trees	airigh: ‘has value’, ‘free man’, chief
dur dur	oak oak	dair or daur or daire or doire: oak, thicket of oaks, dense thicket
coll coll	hazel hazel	also : destruction ; neck
cuileand tinne	holly (Peasant in Ogma’s ranking)	cuilenn or cuilend tinne = metal bar, mass of molten metal, salted pork, holly or alder, a music instrument.
abhull quert	apple (Peasant)	aball : apple-tree ; ubull : apple ceirt = pommier ou chiffon. cert = correct, exact or small or cooking stone.
uindsiu nin	ash (Peasant)	uinnius = ash; in the text (lines 648, 705) unnsi or uindsi = female gender nin = ash-ree, letter n, any of the Ogam’s letter, part of a weaver’s beam, a wave, a cloud ?
ibur	yew	ibar or ibor = yew (tree and wood) See also [note 1].
gius	fir	giús = pine-tree, fir-tree
gort	ivy	gort = un champ, lierre
muin	vine	muin = upper par of the back, any ‘upper part’, vine, cunning.
athaig(-)fedha n-athaigh	Peasant trees Peasant trees	aithech or aithig = peasant, paid with wages. fedha = tree-letters
fern fernn	alder (chieftain)	alder, also (poetry) a man; also : good
sail sail	willow willow	also : beam
bethi bethi	birch birch	beithe or beith = birch ; betha means : life, lifetime
lemh	elm	lem = elm ; also : weak, impotent, worthless
sce huath	white thorn	scé = thorny bush, hawthorn úath: horror, terror or whitethorn, or else a color, a small number, the earth (mold).
crithach	aspen	crith = shaking
caerthand luis	mountain-ash rowan-tree	cáer = berry, ball ; cáerthann = rowan (sorbus gender) [note 1] luis = rowan-tree
fodhla fedha fidlosa	Shrub trees	fedach = branch or fodelg = small thorn lus = herb, genitive losa. fidlosa = letter-herbs
draighen straif	black-thorn (chieftain)	straif = plant used for dyeing. The meaning blackthorn is not found elsewhere than in the auraicept.
trom	elder	also : heavy, difficult
feorus	spindle-tree	as said by the dictionary: ‘possible meaning’
crand fir	test-tree	True tree
fedlend	honeysuckle	I guess this is the bush species. féith = sinew, fiber, ore vein
fidhat	bird-cherry	fid = tree ; fidot = aspen or cudgel
finncholl	white-hazel	fín = vine ; finn or find = white; coll = hazel; the word finncoll (or findcholl) does not exist elsewhere than in the Auraicept
lossa fedha	Herb trees	lus = herb, genitive losa
aitean	furze	áith = sharp
fraech or	heather (chieftain)	fráech = heath ; also fury or = frontier or mane or heath (ur) . ór = gold or incantation?
gilcach onn	broom (chieftain)	onn = pine-tree or gorse or perhaps the ash-tree.