ot:HELP! irish translation

LKtz · Post by **LKtz** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 10:46 pm

Quick question. I am doing an art project for school and I need "peace", "love" and other words like that translated in to Irish. If anyone knows of any words like that, could you help me out? I hope this makes sense, cause it's late and I just got done with a western civ. paper on Sigmund Freud.

Caryn

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 11:02 pm

Caryn, "peace" is "siochain" and "love" is "bheith i ngra le" (well, that's what my dictionary says), "freedom" is "saoirse" and "water" is "uisce" (pronounced whiskey, I'm sure). Hope this helps.

fluteboy · Post by **fluteboy** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 11:37 pm

Well, actually, "love" is simply "gra" (with an accent over the "a")."Bheith i ngra Le Duine" is the full sentence there and it means "To be in Love" (with another person).

Zac

fluteboy · Post by **fluteboy** » Sun Apr 28, 2002 11:43 pm

"Siochain" is pronounced something like
"shuh-SHAN". Uisce is pronounced "OO-shuh"
(often used as "Uisce Beatha" ("Water of Life; i.e. whiskey. And THAT would make a really authentic project!)

Zac

LKtz · Post by **LKtz** » Mon Apr 29, 2002 7:39 am

thanks everyone. This is great.

Caryn

brian_k · Post by **brian_k** » Mon Apr 29, 2002 7:55 am

Hello Caryn,

"Peace" is "síocháin," pronounced "SHE-uh-cawn"; and "love" is "grá," with the "a" rhyming with the "a" in "craw" or "saw."

You have to write the acute accents (called fada marks) in Irish, because they change the pronunciation, and thus also the actual meaning of the word. For example, "síocháin" means "peace"; but "siocán" means "frost." They sound a bit different, because they are.

Hope this helps ....

Fair play to you,
brian_k

LKtz · Post by **LKtz** » Mon Apr 29, 2002 10:09 pm

thanks for all the help. In my drawing and painting class, we are writing/painting condolenses for the students in the Germany school shooting. So I did a celtic tree of life, with irish words around it.

thanks again!
Caryn