1) I've seen the phrase 'ar dóigh' (I think) a lot, and dóigh means (again, I think) burn, but obviously not everybody here is an arsonist, and the closest I can think of is money to burn, so it'd mean on and on and on. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong, though, so could someone please correct me? :)

2) There's two phrases I've seen that mean forever, 'go deo' and 'e choích'... I prolly mispelled the last one, but it should be close enough to understand. What are the different subtleties to these or do they both just mean forever? And I know there are a lot of different words that mean love-emotion and love-person, could someone explain the differences between those too? I'd miss some and anyways I don't have much time, so I'm not listing them :P Or maybe it's just me seeing a lot of them cause mostly I learn off of songs. Whatever.

3) I was just curious.. *curious* since I know that literal translations are impossible, especially with names (how do they get Mór to mean Sarah anyways?), what would Elewyn be? It's just made up, so not actually a name, and not my real one anyways.. anybody who feels like it, this should be for fun rather than because I want it done :P

You don't have to answer these all at once if you don't want to, I know it's long! Go raibh maith agat :)

Elewyn

Elwyn, a chara

1: ar ndóigh = of course,

2: go deo and i gcónai both mean forever. Choíche can be used as an expression meaning ever in the future,for example "if he ever comes (in the future)" = má thagann sé choíche, and

3: I'm afraid I can't help with a translation of your name. Perhaps some of the other regulars here can come up with something.

Any wiser...?

Le meas,
Larry.

Larry (or anyone), a chara

3)For the translation, I don't mean translation exactly.. I mean like, if there's something that is relatively close phonetically and means something pretty, and somebody feels like it, because I don't want to cause mental breakdowns or anything :P A cute little thought. And yes, regulars, and thank you.

2) Hmmm. Okay :) I haven't heard the second, actually. Oh well, maybe it just doesn't get used in songs. I used to do a lot by comparing lyrics to their translations... when I first got into this, I pored over a song for like, 30 minutes. Dunno. It seemed like a long time... came away with "'s MIGHT just mean 'and'." (Also greatly confused over how they wanted to pronounce Ss and did they just decide this arbitrarily!? Then I got it on the internet stuff.)

1) I wonder if there's a reason it means that :P It does mean burn, right? Hmmmmm.

I do feel wiser! Thank you thank you!
Go raibh maith agat,
Elewyn

And thanks for fixing my mistakes, which were from rushing (no second phone line here).

dóigh as a verb means burn or scorch yes. But you'll often come across the expression "Is dóigh liom..." - meaning "I suppose..."

Elwyn, a chara,

Yes, Larry is correct 'ar ndóigh' = 'of course', and in all probability this is the one you've seen the most.

However, just to let you know 'ar dóigh' (note the spelling difference)= 'excellent, wonderful' e.g. Bhí sé ar dóigh = It was great.

As for a Irish name for Elwyn , I not aware of one, the names that it reminds me of are Eibhlin (Eileen) and Ailbhe (Olive) - any just a thought!

Is mise le meas,


Seán Mac Gartlan
Co. an Dúin
Éire

Elwyn
the problem is that dóigh is more than one word!

dóigh as a form of the verb to burn, dó
dóigh as a noun which means "way to"
etc...