Irish Translation Forum

I know I've seen this request before and so I apologize beforehand for asking, but.......

I [b]really love the following saying, "My whole heart for my whole life." Could someone please translate this for me and include a phonetic pronunciation? I would absolutely appreciate it.

Thank you in advance!!

I am not sure on this, just a guess...

Mo chroí iomlán do mo bheatha iomlán


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From what I vaguely remember, I thought it was something like, "moi chroi istigh moi..... " I'm sorry I'm not much help.

You're right about the chroí part, I wasn't thinking when I wrote that... lol. Sorry.

No problem. I'm just sorry that I didn't write it down when I first saw it!! I just want to be sure about the phrase because I want to get it engraved on a ring. I REALLY appreciate your taking the time to reply. If it comes back to me, I'll run it past you. The spelling WON'T be accurate - so bare with me! Thanks again!!

Okay, so I FINALLY noticed the "dictionaries" listed on the side and I tried a couple of those. I found some words but I'm positive the phrasing isn't correct. What do you think of these?

"Moi chroí iomlán, ar feadh moi anam iomlán"

I confused with "life." There seemed to be so many. I found: beatha, anam, ré, saol, and saulta. Any ideas from that?

moi is french, so I don't know which dictionary you got that from
anam is soul
your lifespan would be saol (confusing, these false cognates )
istigh is within, so you were right to rather go with iomlán,
mo chroí iomlán = all my heart

all my heart for all my life, then maybe a verb for good measure?

Tá mo chroí iomlán agat (need word for "for the duration") mo saol iomlán
(you have my heart for my whole life)

we're almost there...!

Iomlán mo chroí d'iomlán mo shaoil
All my heart for all my life
im-lawn muh hree dime-lawn muh haell

I would use saol here rather than beatha.

B.~ the life in us
S. ~ the life we live

To use a verb as Méabh suggested

Tá iomlán mo chroí agat fad's a mhairim
you have my whole heart as long as i live
thaw im-lawn muh hree auh-gut fodz a waur-em

however that might be too much for a ring??

That phrase with istigh is:
Tá mo chroí istigh ionat
I love you, are directly:
My heart is within you

I know that I have this at home in my "copy/paste" document - probably the one you saw before... I'll search it up this evening after work and post another reply so ye can compare it to the answers already posted.

I believe that éanna will have given you the best choices.

Everyone thank you soooooooooooooo much for all the input. I think I definitely have enough to choose from. I'm sure my honey will love any one of these inscriptions. Thanks again!!