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What you've been given looks good. In case it's of interest, another approach might be the following, which uses a pronoun in the second part of each pair to deal with the sentence structure issue:

Spiorad - Treoraíonn sé
Spirt - It guides

Tine - Loisceann sí *
Fire - It consumes

Talamh - Talmhaíonn sé
Earth - It grounds

Aer - Spreagann sé *
Air - It inspires

Uisce - Íonaíonn sé
Water - It purifies

* In the asterisked cases, the verbal form is different from the noun form that was previously given. In the second of those cases, there is some risk of ambiguity, because the verb can also have a pejorative meaning, but in this context it ought to be understood as "inspires".

I would take the same approach as Caoimhín above, but perhaps with the article before each "element":

An Spiorad - Treoraíonn sé
Spirt - It guides

An Tine - Loisceann sí
Fire - It consumes

An Talamh - Talmhaíonn sé
Earth - It grounds

An tAer - Spreagann sé
Air - It inspires

An tUisce - Íonaíonn sé
Water - It purifies

This is really awesome, thank you all so much. It is what I was looking for. Next time I will try to word things better

treoraíonn is ea an briathar mar a úsáidim féin é. An botún atá ann agat?

Ó, tá an ceart agat, ar ndóigh. Bhain mé úsáid as a raibh scríofa ag Caoimhín gan é a léamh i gceart.

I would take the same approach as Caoimhín above, but perhaps with the article before each "element".

Yes, that looks better. I assume that the "t" in the feminine noun tine stays without séimhiú because of the "dntls" rule, right?

CaoimhínSF wrote:I assume that the "t" in the feminine noun tine stays without séimhiú because of the "dntls" rule, right?

That is correct, yes.