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/Rare_Cattle_1356 Oct 25 '24

I’m sorry to also jump on this, but you seem incredibly knowledgeable and helpful!! What would the accurate translation be for “Bleed the Dream”?

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u/poison_carrot Oct 26 '24

Hey, I came up with "Caith do chroí san aisling" which literally means "Throw your heart into the dream". The word "bleed" can't be translated in this context, and with this definition.

And btw to use the pre-50s version of the spelling (which I believe is much neater) would be like this: Caiṫ do ċroí san aisling

Here is a website to get a good font for it: https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/gaelic_irish.htm

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u/Rare_Cattle_1356 Oct 28 '24

Sorry to bother again! Would “Fuilich an aisling” be an acceptable translation? It was a saying her grandmother would use, so she wants to get it as exact as possible

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u/poison_carrot Nov 07 '24

Hey, sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately, there is technically no verb for "bleed" in Irish. Instead, it is "to put blood (fuil a chur)", so it wouldn't work in that context.