Can you tell me, please, how can I translate "white breath" in Irish Gaelic?

Also, I translated "every word of her prayer towards the sky" as "achan focal na paidrese chun spéir". Is it correct?

Thank you very much for your help.

Eduard Tara, Romania

White breath -> anáil bhán


every word of her prayer towards the sky" -> achan fhocal dá paidir i dtreo na spéire

but there are different ways too, guí instead of paidir, and other prepositions to translate towards...

What does white breath mean?

Anáil Bháin is correct; but sounds odd.

For the prayer, it would be nice to have more context; as Lughaidh say's there are several ways of transalting prayer and towards.

White breath sounds odd to me as well, normally breath has no colour... but maybe there's a special expression?

I think it might have to do with breath in the cold - the steam appears white.

But I'd like to know more! I think Eduard has something particular in mind; I seem to remember something about a novel he is working on.

I found "white breath" in some haiku poems. It is a kigo (sezonal word/s) for winter. I think it is an expression for the breath in a cold air, as you already said. I am interested to know the closest expression in Irish.

Thank you very much to all for the messages.

Eduard Tara

About the prayer, I want to say that the scene is:

Someone (a woman, perhaps an old one) stay in the cold air and prays in silence (for a kid in hospital, for the soul of a loved person, close to a grave etc.).

The passers-by come and go, but she stay and her breath seems white because of the steam.

The unsaid words come out with this breath and raise to the sky.

Eduard

PS. Excuse me for my bad English too.

I am not aware that there is a similar metaphor for winter in Irish.

"White breath" is very poetical in the above context so I think that a direct translation would be OK: "anáil bhán".

One says "sioc bán" for "hoar frost" which shows that there is the connection between coldness and whiteness in Irish, even though the winter tends to be less white in Ireland than elsewhere.


For "The unsaid words come out with this breath and raise to the sky."

Maybe you could say something like:

Tógadh a guí in airde i dtost a hanála báine.

You could also use "anáil sioctha" (frosted breath)

D'iompair a hanáil sioctha briathra tostacha a urnaí anuas chun na spéire

Her frosted breath carried the silent words of her prayer upwards to the sky.

anáil shioctha!

aníos chun na spéire!

Dar fia! Is fíor dhuit. Maidin Luáin...

Corrections
D'iompair a hanáil shioctha briathra tostacha a urnaí aníos chun na spéire

Her frosted breath carried the silent words of her prayer upwards to the sky.

a hurnaí!

Muise.

Corrected corrections:

D'iompair a hanáil shioctha briathra tostacha a hurnaí aníos chun na spéire

Maybe I should just not post on Monday mornings...

Puithín ceo a thabharfainn ar a leithéid - ach níl locht ar bith agam ar an anáil shioctha ach oiread.

quote:

Puithín ceo

Ana dheas.

an-dheas!

Thank you very much for all the alternatives!

or anál - PUL used anál as the nominative, análach as the genitive and anáil as the dative.