n a prayer, charm, incantation: éile .i. ortha, O'Cl. ; éli Loga, TBC-I¹ 1812 n. (LU marg.). cach iptha ┐ gach éle ┐ gach orthana doberthea ra cnedaib Con Culaind TBC-LL¹ 3640 . iptha ┐ éle ┐ arthana do chur riu, 3638 . bennacht for in héle-sea, LB 99 marg. inf., cf. [é]ile (v.l. for féile) ZCP i 62.8 n. , see ib. 72 ; Pedersen Vgl. Gr. i 57 . Cf. Conf. Patricii § 20 ? (Todd's St. Patrick 372 ). Possibly the word is taken from Matthew xxvii 46 (or rather from *ēg-lā or ON heilla Études Celt. xxxiv 141 ).

npr., m. Elias. nom. hÉli, hÉle, FA 33 LU (hElii LB). Eile (: lēire), Snedg. u. Mac R 12 § 54 . Éili, § 55 . hEli Enoc diar cobair, Hy i 5 T . Helíí fáith PH 8410.7278 . acc. for Helíi faid, 1410 . gen. co martra hEle ┐ Enoc, Rawl. 69a12 .

n salve (?): ele graeco elon olium (= graece ἔλαιον oleum), ar is de dognither, O'Mulc. 378 . Prob. a misunderstanding of éle , q.v. Cf. eli ab oleo .i. on im, Corm. Y 541 .