Hey, just looking for some help in translating a lyric from a song. Thanks

"I depend on you
For the wings of life"

Braithim orm
do sciatháin an tsaoil

Braithim ort
do sciatháin an tsaoil

Sounds cornier in Irish though.

That doesn't make sense. "Do" is not an all-purpose equivalent for "for."

I was going to say I didn't have any suggestions, but maybe I do:

Is tusa chuireas orm
Eiteoga na beatha.

I dePEND on YOU for the WINGS of LIFE.
Is TUSa CHUIReas orm EITeoga na BEAtha.

Or make it past tense to drop a syllable:

Is tus' a chuir orm
Eiteoga na beatha.

"Is tusa chuir..." or "Is tus' a chuir..." — same thing.

Uait-se fhaghaim-sa
Eiteoga na beatha.

'wet∫э 'a:msэ
'et´o:gi: Nэ 'b´ahэ

I prefer Peadar's last version.

There is always a difficulty translating this kind of phrase. What exactly does Back100 mean by "wings of life"?

Thank you guys very much, the saying is a lyric from a song. The meaning is ambiguous so you have to find your own idea, religious in my case. once again thank you all for your help.

It's a little tough to give an accurate translation when the original meaning is ambiguous in the first place! :-)

There is always a difficulty...

Yup. A bunch of them, in fact. If it's just a couple of lines, it's no simple matter. If it were "just a couple of stanzas," it would be no simple matter at all, at all.

A Munsteroid version: ...GHEIBHIMse [γ'эim´∫э]...

Uaitse gheibhimse
Eiteoga na beatha.
_____

An Ulsteroid version: ...GHEIBHim [jöβ´эm]...

Uaitse gheibhim
Eiteoga na beatha.

Ulster > Uatsa gheibheam / fagham
Eiteogaí na beatha


;)

Yeah, except that it would be "fhagham," because I meant "(Is) uait-se (a) fhaghaim-sa" etc.

In Erris they say [dut´]/[dit´], [dutsэ], so the emphatic form of [wet´] there might be [wutsэ] rather than [wet∫э]; I'm not sure now. The preposition "ó" and its personal forms in Erris Irish, without the emphatic suffixes, are:

a:

wum
wet´
wэjэ
weçэ
weN´
weβ´
wuφэ

wэjэ, weçэ and wuφэ may be reduced to wэj, weç and wuφ at the end of an utterance.

Apparently both "deirim-se" [d´er´im´∫э] and "deirim-sa" [der´эmsэ] etc. are common in the dialect, and I thought the latter was the norm but now I'm not sure about that either. I've read "The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo" twice, and I'm going to have to read the whole thing at least a third time, and also keep listening to "I gCeartlár na nDaoine" and "Parlaimint Mhaigh Eo."

I'll throw in the "standard" spelling of the verse translation for good measure:

Uaitse a fhaighimse
Eiteoga na beatha.

But don't anyone dare pronounce that relative "a"! And no glottal stops!

the emphatic form of [wet´] there might be [wutsэ] rather than [wet∫э]; I'm not sure now.

I guess the most logical deduction is that it's "uait-sa" [wetsэ], until and unless I learn otherwise.

Sigh! the poor guy was only lookin' for a translation and instead he gets learned debate on butterfly wings and storms!
Give him a break and stop trying to outdo each other on the erudition! Breandán Ó hEithir couldn't have made this up if he tried!!!

vortices from the butterfly's wings, perhaps?