[Scottish Gaelic] Translation requests

[lamelmaster]

Hello there, yeah its True i being reading about the william wallace and scottish history and theres many parts of the movie that are really inaccurate but you know the movie it is really for entertainment purposes only, as is nearly every other movie ever made.
Why in gaelic ? I wanted to get a tattoo with this quote in Gaelic .

[Scribbles]

I was wondering if someone could help me out with finding this in Scottish Gaelic please, i've searched across the internet with no luck

The line is -
"i have the strength to face all conditions by the power that christ gives me"

[Eoghan]

I was wondering if someone could help me out with finding this in Scottish Gaelic please, i've searched across the internet with no luck

The line is -
"i have the strength to face all conditions by the power that christ gives me"

‘Is urradh mi na h-uile nithe a dheanamh troimh Chriosd, a neartaicheas mi’

And for future reference - use this bible;

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL17974661M/Tiomnadh_Nuadh_ar_Tighearna_agus_ar_Slanuighir_Iosa_Criosd

[Jack_sim]

I have just acquired a boat which was originally called STARGATE. It is unlucky to change a boat's name so the person I bought the boat from tried to translate it into Gaelic (thus keeping the same name allbeit in a different language). He translated it as " Fionnag Dorus" which seems like a clumsy litoral translation which doesn't really mean anything. Is there a more elegant translation of STARGATE into Gaelic. I had thought of "Bealach gu Fionnag" but this seems a bit laboured too. Can anyone help.

[kaigreen]

Was wondering if anyone can translate " The bond between brothers is forever " and i'm talking about blood brothers.

cheers

[kaigreen]

Could someone please help me translate " The bond between brothers is forever" I am talking about my real brother.
Thx

[linguoboy]

If people aren't responding to your public posts, then rather than make more of them, you might be better off contacting one of the recognised experts here directly.

[misty]

hi
Could any one please help me and translate to Scottish Gaelic the number....'254'.
Two Hundered and fifty four

Correct spelling is very important too..

Thanks very much.

[Íde]

I think one of the big difficulties with a lot of the translations people ask for on here is that the phrases don't exist per se in Gaidhlig. What I mean is that a phrase may have particular connotations in English, due to pop-culture or whatever, and consequently, it's almost impossible to convey that into Gaidhlig or else, occasionally, no-one has ever thought to express that concept in Gaidhlig before.

I'd love to help, but I must confess, I don't actually know what a star-gate is! Is it a genuine scientific term or something made up for science-fiction? Either way, I doubt the native speakers of Scotland would have a term, although you could possibly find a clumsy modern 'made-up' version.

Therefore, I'm sorry to say, but I think your search might be in vain. There are some lovely phrases in Gaidhlig relating to stars, many with wonderful stories behind them (for example, Slighe Chloinn Uisnich, The Milky Way, relates to the ancient Celtic legend of Deirdre and Clann Uisnich), but no real translation of the phrase you are looking for, I'm afraid.

[Eoghan]

hi
Could any one please help me and translate to Scottish Gaelic the number....'254'.
Two Hundered and fifty four

Correct spelling is very important too..

Thanks very much.

dà cheud ‘s ceithir air leth-cheud

or

dà cheud ‘s ceithir air dà fhichead ‘s a deich

[misty]

thanks for that, problem is I have received so many different versions.
is that normal?

one translation I was also given was
da cheud caogad sa ceithir

is this also correct? although there might be some 'graves' in it but unsure where.
are there many different versions?
any thoughts?

thanks

[Eoghan]

thanks for that, problem is I have received so many different versions.
is that normal?

one translation I was also given was
da cheud caogad sa ceithir

is this also correct? although there might be some 'graves' in it but unsure where.
are there many different versions?
any thoughts?

thanks

Yup, but it should be spelt as dà cheud caogad ‘s a ceithir.
Caogad is the ugly, new way of saying fifty.

It translates as five times ten.

Leth-cheud translates as half-hundred = 50.
dà fhichead ‘s a deich (which I prefer) translates as 2 times twenty and ten = 50.

[Jack_sim]

Thank you for the information. I had suspected that what you say would be the case. I think I will need to go back to English.

[daratama]

Hello,
ich hope somebody can help me.
Can you tell me the translation for selfconfidence in scottish gealic ?

For hang on to it , stay strong ??

I would be more then happy.

Thank you very much

Dara

[jamiemcginlay]

Hello,

I am researching into a Scottish artist and need a translation of a scroll painted in one of his murals. It is probably linked to a pibroch tune if that helps. The lettering is difficult but I believe it is:

Tha mo chridh bho
Is mo chridh Leon
bho Leon

I can also supply a close up photograph if it helps.

Thanks in anticipation.
Jim McGinlay

[Eoghan]

Hello,

I am researching into a Scottish artist and need a translation of a scroll painted in one of his murals. It is probably linked to a pibroch tune if that helps. The lettering is difficult but I believe it is:

Tha mo chridh bho
Is mo chridh Leon
bho Leon

I can also supply a close up photograph if it helps.

Thanks in anticipation.
Jim McGinlay

The photo would help as this doesn't make much sense ...

‘My heart is from
and my heart bruise
from bruise’

If you upload the photo I'd be able to translate it better, the bho is probably bròn, i.e. sadness.

[sarahlynn07]

I'm looking to get this phrase "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine" translated from English to Scottish Gaelic for a tattoo.

Thank you for your time!

[Eoghan]

Really? Well, sadly Gaelic doesn't have a way to express belonging in the same way as English does, so it'd be hard to translate.

Honestly, i'm trying tae think of a good way to translate this and really. It's impossible.

Tha leannan agam, agus ‘s leannan a th’annam gu bheil aige. (or, instead of gu bheil, use "a th’aige /aice")

There's a sweetheart with me, and I am the sweetheart that is with him. (aice=with her).

[DelBoy]

I hate helping to do tattoo translations but...

Eoghan - in Irish, you can express belonging with "le" ("Is le mo leannán mé agus is liomsa mo leannán") - would there be a similar construction in Scottish Gaelic, with 'le' or 'ri'?

[Eoghan]

Aye, you can, but I don't know if I would say that it has the same sort of connotations. My Gaelic is crap though, so it probably has.

If I'd use ri, I'd say

‘S mise ri mo leannan, agus ‘s esan an leannan rium-sa?

I am with my beloved one, and he is the beloved one that is with me.