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steve ()
| | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2001 - 04:58 pm: | 
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i am thinking about getting a tatoo of my family motto and i was wonderig if the sentence structure i have is correct ofor the meaning, i have come across 2 different ways of saying it, the family motto is man triumping his enemy, or something to that nature the two ways of saying i have are "giolla abú ar namhaid" and giolla namhaid ar abú"
Slán
steve |
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john
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2001 - 09:54 pm: |
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thats interesting |
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Aonghus
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 03:54 am: |
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giolla means servant or slave
namhaid is enemy
"giolla abú ar namhaid" doesn't make sense in contempary Irish.
abú is usually used with a name, as in "Ó Domhnaill abú!"
up Ó Domhnaill, I've never seen it used as a verb in this way. |
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Seosamh Mac Muirí ()
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2001 - 11:41 am: |
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Le muintir Uí Dhonnabháin thú, a Steve, ní foláir. You have to be an Ó Donnabháin.
Is éard atá uait/The structure you are looking for is :
Giolla ar a námhaid abú!
Mholfainn leabhair Ghearóid Mhic Spealáin duit le haghaidh tuilleadh taighde am éigin. Check out the local history books of G. Mac Spealáin of the 1940/50s for your interests sake. (Tá siad i nGaeilg!)
Go n-éirí an dathú/tatto leat! |
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