I am looking to translate something into old irish and was told to ask for Denis on this forum?

Dennis ;-)

What do you want to translate? Somebody else might be able to help you as well.

Yep, Liz is well qualified, too.

This person is on other forums looking variously for stuff in ogham, old irish and 'mixed age Irish', so be aware that they may not know what they are asking for entirely.

*If you are reading this, sorry to talk about you in the third person!

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Liz,
goide mar atá do thionscramh ag rith?

what i want is a translation of the words 'in memory' into old irish.. if any one can help.

and brn yes i do know what i am looking for, i am interedted in finding out translations in various different old languages.

but for now jus old irish please!

thanks!

And how many people will be able to firstly give it to you in primitive Irish and then secondly into ogham. Most of the stuff of that era are titles -so I leave it to those more knowledgeable than i in this to generate a sentence. Remember, your will need the person's name too (for to put in the genitive case) , ex: 'in memory of X'

Modern Irish: i gcuimhne

Old Irish: hi cuimni

Not much difference, really. The 'h' in the OI is purely graphic, not pronounced. And the 'gc' and 'mh' are actually pronounced in OI, although not spelled out! The only real structural difference is the dative ending -i in "cuimni".

Pronounced

[i ˈguβnʲi] in Old Irish, I'd say.

Does that mean that slender weak n *is* palatised now? You know, the one you said was not, but is lightly palatised?...

We're not sure how Old Irish was pronounced, especially for little things like that. I've just copied what is explained in the book 'Sengoídelc'.

In Modern irish, Donegal, cuimhne is pronounced [ˈkˠɪβɲɪ]

thanks