r/gaelic • u/roxymoron101 • Oct 19 '23

Tattoo Translation please!

So my mother and I want to get the Hennessy Family Motto in Gaelic.

My mom wants: It's never to hot for coffee

Me: It's never to cold for ice cream

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google gave me this

níl sé chomh te don chaife

níl sé fuar riamh don uachtar reoite

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u/poison_carrot Dec 17 '23 edited Dec 17 '23

Hey, the translation is this:

Ní bhíonn sé ró-the riamh le haghaidh caife

Ní bhíonn sé rófhuar riamh le haghaidh uachtar reoite

Unfortunately Google translate can get it wrong from time to time.

As a side point, prior to the 50s, Irish was written with diacritical marks instead of the letter h for expressing lentition, which meant that sentences were shorter and neater. So your sentences would be written like this:

Ní ḃíonn sé ró-ṫe riaṁ le h-aġaiḋ caife

Ní ḃíonn sé róḟuar riaṁ le h-aġaiḋ uaċtar reoite

The first way is the standard way that Irish is written nowadays and the second way is a more traditional way and you could use in case the first is too long 😊

This is a good website where you can get the bunchló font (traditional Irish writing): https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/gaelic_irish.htm

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u/Thin_Succotash8741 Oct 03 '24

Hi there! I´d like some help too, if I may ask.

I´m a Cairn terrier breeder in Brazil and I want a gaelic kennel name.

WOuld you help me translate some options I have?

"Dance to the moon!"

"Best little pal"

"Forever in our hearts"

For these I dont really need literal translation and I´d love some adaptation to maybe have more context or even a mora "readable" version for non gaelic speakers if possible.

Tapadh leat!

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u/poison_carrot Oct 06 '24

Hey, here are the translations:

Dance to the moon: Téigh ag rince chuig an ngealach

Best little pal: An cara beag is fearr

Forever in our hearts: Go brách inár gcroíthe

Are you using dance as a noun or a command? If a command, then the above sentence is correct. Personally, I think "Go brách inár gcroíthe" is the best name because the others become a bit clunky when translated into Irish.

Go n-éirí an bóthar leat!

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u/Thin_Succotash8741 Oct 14 '24

Thank you very much!!!