Seanfhocal

nando

Dia daoibh go leir agus tá súil agam go mbeidh duine éigin an seo ábalta cuidiú a thabhairt dom.

My friend was looking for a "seanfhocal" to use as the title of an essay she is working on and found a suitable one in Scottish Gaelic:

"Cha robh dithis riamh a' fadadh teine nach do las eatarra". Apparantly this translates to "Two never kindled a fire but it lit between them", and means two people never meant to fall in love but it happened anyway - it was fate for them to fall in love.

She would like to use a seanfhocal as Gaeilge with a similar meaning. An bhfuil fios ag éinne seanfhocal oiriúnach?

Go raibh míle maith agaibh go leir.

Gael

Well first of all I want to make sure I understand the sentiment of the seanfhocal. I presume it means that two people working at the same thing lightens the load? Like a problem shared is a problem halfed, or some such idea?

If so I would maybe suggest "Giorraíonn beirt bóthar". Two people make a road seem shorter. Have I got the right idea?

Though you could just use the original Scots-Gaelic one and simply write it in modern Irish spelling, if you like.

simu

I can't think of any romantic seanfhocal! In fact, I'm not sure I'd interpret that as being romantic.

But as Gael said, you could just translate it to Irish - Níor fhadaigh beirt tine riamh nár las sé eatarthu or sth?