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Pádraig
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Username: Pádraig
Post Number: 415
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 01:40 pm: |   
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Would someone translate this for me? Thankyou?
Cuimnigh, a bhfear; tá tú deannach, agus tiontóidh tá go deannach.
Ní maith é an duine a bheith leis féin.
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2825
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 02:20 pm: |
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It's pretty dodgy Irish, a Phádraig, but it seems to be an attempt at: "Remember, man; you are dust and you will turn to dust (and to dust you will return)." Here's the whole of Gen. 3:19 from the Maigh Nuad Bible:
Le hallas do ghrua
is ea a íosfaidh tú do chuid aráin
go bhfillfidh tú ar an talamh
mar is as a tháinig tú.
Óir is luaithreach thú,
agus ar an luaithreach is ea a fhillfidh tú.
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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Pádraig
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Username: Pádraig
Post Number: 416
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 03:02 pm: |
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Go raibh maith agat. What about the "cuimhnigh, a bhfear?" Does that flow in common usage, or is it also dodgy Irish? Everything I come up with is very literal because I have no spoken Irish as a frame of reference.
Ní maith é an duine a bheith leis féin.
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 2829
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 06:36 pm: |
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"Cuimhnigh" is fine. For the vocative "o man!" you'll want "a fhear".
"An seanchas gearr,
an seanchas is fearr."
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