Irish Translation Forum

hi...

looking for some translation help on tattoo writing...

wanting to get a triquetra to honor the death of my late father and father in law....as well as my own two sons...

I have father translated to athair...is there a translation different for fathers?

I have son translated to mac...is that correct and different for sons?

I have not been able to find the translation for 'forever' or ' always' .. I think it might be go deo or gconai but I might have the wrong context

Your wisdom in this would be appreciated

athaireacha - fathers
mic - sons
foever - go deo
always - i gcónaí

If you're planning on using these in a sentence, you may want to post how you want to use them. In Irish, spelling changes can occur depending on how they are placed in a sentence. Just a suggestion, since this is for something permanent..

Please do not attempt to cobble something together by pulling words from a dictionary. Irish grammar is very complicated and if you do not know the language, you'll have gibberish .

aithreacha - fathers
mic - sons
foever - go deo
always - i gcónaí

Correction above to the plural of father

In case what you wanted was one of the following, here are some phrases:

aithreacha agus mic go deo
fathers and sons forever

aithreacha agus mic i gcónaí
fathers and sons always

If space is at a premium, you can shorten the word agus ("and") in either of the following ways:
aithreacha is mic go deo
aithreacha 's mic go deo

Thanks very much for posting a response
To clarify..i was planning on having one word written on each side of a triquetra...
So not in a sentence, but I respect the nature of the language. Unfortunately I have NO ancestors left to ask...
If I use the words individually are there any revisions that you could suggest

Cheers

Thanks very much for posting a response
To clarify..i was planning on having one word written on each side of a triquetra...
So not in a sentence, but I respect the nature of the language. Unfortunately I have NO ancestors left to ask...
If I use the words individually are there any revisions that you could suggest

If those are the only words you are using, then no changes are needed if you separate them. You could just put the following on the three sides, with or without the "'s":

aithreacha
's mic
go deo