The neice of a friend wants to get a tatoo....A Celtic Cross, with the word "blessed" underneath. Can someone tell me the proper word for "she herself has been blessed" as well as "her body has been blessed"?

Mickey

Tá beannacht ar a corp.....might be OK for "her body has been blessed". Literally, it would be more "There is a blessing upon her body". Not sure how it sounds to the native Irish ear, however.

Tá beannacht ar sí féin...maybe??? for "she herself...."

This thing is for ink which...absent a ton of money and a tolerance for pain is essentially permanent.

You better wait for Aonghus or Lughaidh or some of the others...

She herself has been blessed

= Beannaíodh í féin.

Her body has been blessed

= Beannaíodh a corp.



Note: Beannaíodh would be beannadh in NW Donegal.


"Blessed" (as a past participle) alone is beannaithe.

See.....that's why you needed to wait!!!

So....Beannacht doesn't mean blessed?

An elderly woman from Dun na ngall said "beannacht" also meant "good luck"!

"Beannacht" means greeting/blessing. (noun)

Beannaithe means blessed. (adjective)

I'd suggest using beannaithe.

Is beannaithe í	she is blessed
Is beannaithe a corp	her body is blessed

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beannacht [ainmfhocal baininscneach den tríú díochlaonadh]
dea-ghuí do dhuine; seirbhís eaglasta ina mbeannaítear an pobal

beannaithe [aidiacht den tríú díochlaonadh]
naofa.

beannú [ainm briathartha][ainmfhocal firinscneach]
naomhú; beannacht a chur ar dhuine nó ar rud; a dhéanamh naofa nó beannaithe (ag beannú na habhlainne); focal nó geáitse muintearais a chur le duine (ní bheannódh sé dom).

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B'fhearr liom 'colainn' a úsáid, a Aonghuis, meas tú?

Is fíor dhuit.

Is beannaithe í	she is blessed
Is beannaithe a colainn	her body is blessed

Colainn, as Jessica pointed out, is a better word for a living body...

As far as I know (and this is confirmed in An Foclóir Beag), colainn = body (without the head), while corp = body (including the head)...

Ach corp = corpse chomh maith!

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corp [ainmfhocal firinscneach den chéad díochlaonadh]
iomlán substainteach duine nó ainmhí, marbh nó beo (idir anam agus chorp); duine marbh (corp os cionn cláir, teach an choirp); creatlach (léim sé as a chorp); cabhail, colainn (corp gan cheann); stoc (corp crainn, corp colúin); iomlán (is é corp na fírinne é; le corp nirt).

colainn [ainmfhocal baininscneach den dara díochlaonadh]
corp an duine (an diabhal i gcolainn dhaonna); mianta an choirp (pléisiúir na colainne); cabhail (colainn gan cheann; colainn báid).

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Is léir ón gcéad sampla "an diabhal i gcolainn dhaonna" nach gá gur corp gan cheann atá i gceist!

Tá ’s agam. Ach tá cuid mhaith ciall aige achan fhocal, agus ní dóigh liom gur gá "body" a chur ins an abairt.

It would be clearer and easier to say simply "blessing on her" or whatever, without using the word "body" (which sounds odd to me, even in English, maybe it's because it would be odd in my mothertongue).

Aisteach agamsa fosta. Blas diamhaslach air!