Irish Translation Forum

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo when I'm older that features the words "gilded butterfly" in reference to my love of Shakespeare, my feelings of myself, and my love of the theatre. I want it in Irish Gaelic to represent my ties to the Irish people.

So is the translation "óraithe féileacán" correct? Or do I need to switch the noun and adjective around? Not too sure about grammar. Or is it something different altogether? 'Preciate the help, y'all:)

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Redwolf wrote:

kaitiibug wrote:I'm thinking about getting a tattoo when I'm older that features the words "gilded butterfly" in reference to my love of Shakespeare, my feelings of myself, and my love of the theatre. I want it in Irish Gaelic to represent my ties to the Irish people.

So is the translation "óraithe féileacán" correct? Or do I need to switch the noun and adjective around? Not too sure about grammar. Or is it something different altogether? 'Preciate the help, y'all:)

Gilded Butterfly: Féileachán Óraithe (note the corrected spelling).

Redwolf

Thanks so much. Really appreciate the correction:)

Redwolf wrote:

kaitiibug wrote:I'm thinking about getting a tattoo when I'm older that features the words "gilded butterfly" in reference to my love of Shakespeare, my feelings of myself, and my love of the theatre. I want it in Irish Gaelic to represent my ties to the Irish people.

So is the translation "óraithe féileacán" correct? Or do I need to switch the noun and adjective around? Not too sure about grammar. Or is it something different altogether? 'Preciate the help, y'all:)

Gilded Butterfly: Féileachán Óraithe (note the corrected spelling).

Redwolf

Féileacán Óraithe (note the corrected corrected spelling).

scoobytyson wrote:

Redwolf wrote:

kaitiibug wrote:I'm thinking about getting a tattoo when I'm older that features the words "gilded butterfly" in reference to my love of Shakespeare, my feelings of myself, and my love of the theatre. I want it in Irish Gaelic to represent my ties to the Irish people.

So is the translation "óraithe féileacán" correct? Or do I need to switch the noun and adjective around? Not too sure about grammar. Or is it something different altogether? 'Preciate the help, y'all:)

Gilded Butterfly: Féileachán Óraithe (note the corrected spelling).

Redwolf

Féileacán Óraithe (note the corrected corrected spelling).

I'm confused?

I was leaning toward "mistake", because Collins, Focal.ie, and AFB only have it without the h. Then I staged a Googlefight:

féileacán - 987 results
féileachán - 593 results

Which suggests the following possibilities:

"féileachán" is an alternative spelling
"féileachán" is a mistake, but a very common one
"féileachán" is a word in some other language

De Bhaldraithe, FGB, Focloir Scoile, An Focloir Beag, Collins and Dinneen all have 'féileacán', none has 'féileachán'.

I Googled it too. Many of the versions with the h seems to relate to the same film with that word in the title. Litríocht.com lists 'An Féileachán agus an Crann Ull' but the picture of the front cover of the book has the other spelling. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it is spelt with a h in some parts, but the word as I know it is Féileacán and the various dictionaries I have consulted agree with this. Then of course there's the word peidhleacán just for variety.