Help with Irish translation please!!

Selphie

Doing an essay on Fadhb Na Bochtaineachta at the moment, can somebody translate this for me?? I know what the rest of the sentence means, I just can't figure out where the ceal fits in and I can't find a proper definition for the word...

Bíonn duine bocht nuair nach mbíonn ar a chumas saol sona, sásta a chaitheamh ceal airgid.

JC 2K3

ceal? Never heard that word used like that before.....

"ar ceal" means cancelled or postponed....

Where'd you get the sentence?

whassupp2

This is my guess. I'm not great at irish though:

It basically means your health is your wealth but the actual translation is:

people are poor when they are not happy in life without money/wealth.

Thats the best I can do.

Selphie

Yup, I kind of figured it meant that too, because that's the only thing I thought made sense: As in people are poor when they are not able to have a happy life.... without/because of.... money?
I got it from an article from Foinse. My teacher gave it to me.

JC 2K3

Try asking here: http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/

There're a load of people there who speak different dialects.

"ceal" could mean "gan"("without") here. But "People are poor when they are not able to live a happy life without money" seems odd. Logically it should mean "due to lack of"("mar gheall ar easpa")...

Selphie

Go raibh míle maith agaibh

PurpleFistMixer

Perhaps it's referring to people's dependence on money to be happy?

JC 2K3

Could be, but I presumed the article was about conventional poverty.

Rozabeez

I can only really figure it out as, "People can be poor in the lack of happiness as well as lack of money", don't get the "ceal" bit though.

Selphie

The article is about poverty in general. I wrote mar gheall ar easpa instead; I'll try to find out from my teacher tomorrow what it means.

cocoa

I've seen ceal used this way a couple of times. The closest english phrase i can think of is "for want of". i.e., "níor éirigh liom mórán staidéir a dhéanamh ceal ama" so in this case, the translation is:

A person is poor when they are unable to lead a contented and happy life for want of money.

It's just a definition of poverty, it points out that a person is poor when they are inhibited by their lack of money. Any definition of poverty is going to mention a lack of money but you still have to put it in really...

yurmothrintites

It means A person is poor when they dont have a happy life because of a lack of money (which is what other peole said)!