Irish Translation Forum

is this correct?
my name is Colleen, and I thought this might be a nice tattoo since this is my name in Gaelic as well.
My father died and I want to get a tattoo in his memory.

Yeah, that's right but we usually suggest substituting Daddy's Pet Peata Dhaidí as in Irish Daddy's girl gives the impression it's a girlfriend.

You can say, if you like:

cailín a daidí
her daddy's girl
or
cailín beag a daidí
her daddy's 'little' girl

I would not misunderstand this. It is just another possibility.

...you can have other variations using 'féin' depending on emphasis... but for writing I'd leave it short. That said, there's nothing wrong with 'peata a daidí' or 'peata Dhaidí' either. Depends on the speaker and you should wait for a few more opinions from around the country...

Cailín daidí works as well.

Benjamin wrote:Cailín daidí works as well.

Cailín Dhaidí

cailín daidí...cailín is masculine and daidí is not a personal name.

This seems to cause distress for some translators meaning that it could daddy's girlfriend...well it could, just like daddy's girl does in English also. If you're speaking to a child and use this phrase it is fine unless you are a paedo. Cailín daidí

rossai wrote:cailín daidí...cailín is masculine and daidí is not a personal name.

Yes, but Daid/Daidí is used as a personal name within the family. "Tá Daid sa bhaile (age baile)" = "Dad's at home" not "A Dad is at home". "Tá Maimí ina suí cois tine ag caitheamh dúidín" etc.

I'm not at the top of the class in matters grammatical, but it seems to me more logical to treat it as a personal name in the context requested.

That's a very interesting point that I haven't considered. I must say i can think of no reason why it shouldn't be allowed. Maybe both can be used in this light. The grammarians will go mental tho!

rossai wrote:cailín daidí...cailín is masculine and daidí is not a personal name.

This seems to cause distress for some translators meaning that it could daddy's girlfriend...well it could, just like daddy's girl does in English also. If you're speaking to a child and use this phrase it is fine unless you are a paedo. Cailín daidí

That may be a cultural difference as well. I can't think of any time in American English when "Daddy's girl" would be interpreted as meaning anything other than "Daddy's daughter" (in fact, it's kind of a set phrase here..."she's daddy's girl" meaning that a girl and her father have an especially close relationship. You'd never hear it here used to refer to "daddy's piece on the side")

Redwolf

Redwolf wrote:You'd never hear it here used to refer to "daddy's piece on the side")

Hahahahahahhaha



You could be a comedian

Piece on the side, Lol, can i use that?