Irish Translation Forum

any translations of the name renee or rene or however you want to spell it? ive looked all over so im assuming not but figured id ask anyways. thanks

Renée means reborn, so one could translate 'the reborn one' into Irish, but it may not be usable as a name...

so how do you say reborn or the reborn one in irish?

Reborn = athbheirtha

Reborn One

An Duine Athbheirtha

An interesting variation might be to use the phrase Cauldron-Born, as in reference to the magic cauldron that revived the dead. It's way to early for me to remeber the word fro cauldron, unfortunately. I knew my Gaelic would get really rusty when my parents died.

Figures....give me 15 minutes and I'll think of something.

Now, I haven't used gaelic in almost 5 years, so bear with me, but I think

coire saolú

would work for cauldron birthed. Of course, you might hate that idea. It was just a thought.

Saolú is a good word for born as well.

Coire saolú? Seems fine to me. Well done. Did your parents speak a little Irish then?

ok so if you saw the word "athbheirtha" and knew it was "reborn" would it be unreasonable or a stretch to have the name renee come to mind, or at least associate the word "athbheirtha " with renee?

I think it's a stretch cos most people don't know what Renée means anyway.

Ailill wrote:Saolú is a good word for born as well.

Coire saolú? Seems fine to me. Well done. Did your parents speak a little Irish then?

Yes, but just a bit, and some of it is truly ancient. My great grandfather was a member of the famed Flying Columns, and my parents were brought to the US in the 50's. I learned what I could, but it's pretty spotty. I'm trying to find time to learn to be fluent, but.....life conspires against me, I guess.