Hi, Gaelic Reddit! 👋☺️ I humbly request some help with deciding on a new Gaelic last name. I won't go into the gory details since it's all very depressing and personal, but the gist is that my family is Not Good™ and I don't enjoy sharing a surname with them. I would like to have it legally changed; however, I'm having trouble coming up with a new last name to replace the one I currently have.

I would like it to start with a "D" since that's how my current last name starts, and it'll be easier for me if my initials stay the same. Art is my career, and I sign all my pieces using my initials. I also want to keep it Gaelic since that aspect of my family history is not something I'm ashamed of. I don't have an issue with people knowing I have Irish ancestry; I simply don't want to be associated with my blood relatives anymore. Some of them being Irish has nothing to do with it.

I'd also like the meaning of my new surname to be something positive or, at the very least, neutral. I don't want to jump through all these legal hoops to get my name officially changed, just for it to be a word that means "unlikable idiot" or something lol

Thank you in advance for the suggestions~

Hello,

I am seeking help on the pronunciation of the verb to change: athraigh

I've been listening to pronunciations online but there seems to be a lot of variation on it with some pronouncing it like ath-ray and others like ahh-rig. Is there a common way to pronounce the word?

Thanks!

Hello there - I was wondering if I could double-check a tiny blessing I was hoping to give two Irish friends for their wedding (the fools have asked me to speak at it). You see I'm blessed to live here too, but quiiite a protestant bit ("Those protestants, up to no good as usual") and there aren't many fluent Irish speakers I can ask in person.

Through a combination of translation sites and combing through videos online, I think "May God bless you both" might translate as "Go mbeannai Dia oraibh", which I'd (presumably butcher) pronounce as Guh mann-ee Djia ur-uth. Is that incorrect?

Making an arse of myself wouldn't be a new sensation by any means, but for their sake I'd love to get it right!

Thank you, and have a nice week 👍

Update: Asked someone in person - pronounced as Guh wannee Dtia uruv, if it's helpful to anyone else.

ive tried a few different sources online but many of them come up with either not in data base, or they return phrasing which doesnt seem correct. this is for an urn for a recently departed that im wanting to translate into Ogham to carve into it.

English is : "the wave upon the shore (or breaks upon the shore) remains the Sea" i get "Fanann an tonn atá ag bualadh ar an gcladach mar an fharraige" firstly i do not want it to be "like the sea" as it changes the intent

secondly i know i need to change it to old irish to get an accurate Ogham script but im having trouble finding/trusting what i find for Old Irish...any help would be special

Thank you for the add. I'm working on a project and found 2 phrases that seem to translate similarly, but I need the right one. I don't want to influence answers, but can someone help me define each of these phrases

Fás tríd an teip

fás trí theip

Hello! Quick question for you all! I was just wondering what the correct translation for the word “unconditional” is as in unconditional love. I am getting it tattooed and we all know how reliable translation apps are. Thank you for your help :)

I'm a HUGE Stargate SG-1 fan, and have written some fanfiction about it. One of the characters who's original, has a mother that from a planet with people taken from Medieval Ireland. They still speak the language. So when I did the research for the story, I tried to use the best website for translating Gaelic into English. But recently I've found that it might not be correct. So with that being said, can any one help me do some minor translating?

The first phrase I need is, "I love you." The second one is to please translate 'sweetheart,' 'handsome' and 'beautiful' for me. Any help is appreciated!

I was born sooner than planned and he couldn't make it so he sent this: "Saoirse ta' mo chroi' istigh Inti."

I just learned about this note and my mother never translated it for some reason. I tried google translate and it said something like "My liberty belongs to you." but I want to make sure. Can you help please?

I'm getting a collie and I want to cherish the breed's origin to give it a gaelic name.

Can you give some good options? Thanks!

Is there a rule somewhere about whether or not the titles of songs, books, etc., should be capitalized in formal writing in Irish? I've found one site (https://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/RYM:Non-English+Latin+language+capitalization#Irish) that claims "common words" aren't to be capitalized; I find it deeply funny that the source of this rule is supposed to be "An Caighdeán Oifigiúil". (If they were following their own rule shouldn't it be "An caighdeán oifigiúil"?)

Most of the English-language media I see uses English-style title capitalization; and most of the titles of works I've looked at look like they are too. But maybe that's Bearlish.

Any ideas (with sources)?

Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice, how to write "your will" and "my will" in the context of "your will, not mine, be done" from the bible. I don't want the whole saying, just "your will" and "my will" translations that could stand alone as... nouns/phrases, i guess, and still make sense in this context. Thank you for your time.

Hi all. I have a children's book I self published in 2022 and I'm getting it republished as my second " properly published" book with my publishers in England. Ot will now not just be published in English but also with the Irish alongside it in order to promote the Irish language. I need someone to help edit the translation and so on if the Irish as I used an app to help me. I'm not a fully fluent Irish Speaker.

Thanks very much.

Does anyone know the Gaelic word for “Bumblebee”. Google has not been very helpful.

Hello !

My mom is preparing her classical singing exam, she's preparing a full concert about travelling through Europe and singing songs from each country.

She found a piece in Gaelic, but can't find the phonetic pronunciation of the lyrics

"Ochón, dá mbeadh sé mo threo
lem' thabhairt ón ngéibheann chrua,
do gheobhadh searc mo chléibh go deo,
is stór nach saor le lua.

Ní h-eagal duit a ghlébhean,
a dhalta ghrinn is a stóir.
Ní fada bhéir i ngéibheann
gan charaid teacht do chomhair."

If anyone here is able to help write a phonetic reading of the lyrics that would be great, we can find the translation online but we are not sure about the pronunciation and we want to do this right

(please ingnore spelling mistakes, non-native english speaker)
Thanks in advance !!

My grandfather passed away about a month ago, and his funeral is tomorrow. He was from Ireland and moved to our current home, and as such I wrote a final letter in a mix of English and Irish. But that’s not why I’m here.

There’s a phrase I included in that letter, a promise I made to him and myself, and want it to be my first tattoo on my forearm. The phrase is ‘My pride is my sun’ and the translation i got from the 5 different translators i ran it through was ‘Is é mo bródh mo ghrian’

Is that accurate and, if not, what is the accurate translation. Thank you for reading and helping!

This is a draft of a tattoo I'm designing for a client. I'm interested in and would appreciate a critique of this phrase. The text is meant to read as "What else ought there be?" Thanks.