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  • 12-07-2009 12:11am
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    newcastlegirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    I am looking to get a tattoo with the phrase "walk on" but I am looking to have it done in celtic/gaelic. Can anyone help translate this for me?

    Thanks!!


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    hoolio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭hoolio


    I'd get many many opinions on this before you take the plunge, for obvious reasons. For example this horror story:
    http://news.bmezine.com/2007/02/23/drugail-saor/

    Personally i'd translate it as

    "Siúl ar aghaidh"

    literally means more "walk at the face of", but actually means "walk on" more or less. Although i might be about to be very wrong


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    Krusader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Siúl ar aghaidh

    I would agree with that

    Rac ar aghaidh -- Rock on


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    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    newcastlegirl wrote: »
    I am looking to get a tattoo with the phrase "walk on" but I am looking to have it done in celtic/gaelic. Can anyone help translate this for me?

    Thanks!!

    Inform Yourself


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    newcastlegirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭newcastlegirl


    Correction from my original post, i am looking to have "walk on" translated to celtic/Irish for a tattoo.

    Thanks!


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    FruitLover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    Getting a tattoo in a language you don't even understand, eh? Yeah, nothing could go tragically (and permanently) wrong there...


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    newcastlegirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭newcastlegirl


    technically, no, I do not speak the language, but is it wrong that I am interested in it? I certainly will not go through with the tat if I am not 100% certain the translation is accurate. I may be American, but I am certainly not ignorant.
    I do appreciate any help I can get though.


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    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    newcastlegirl wrote: »
    Correction from my original post, i am looking to have "walk on" translated to celtic/Irish for a tattoo.

    Thanks!

    Don't mean to be rude, fair enough your interested and all, but please do some research and at least know what language you want. "Celtic" is not a language, it is a group of languages including Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, Breton.
    It's definitely Irish you want yes?


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    newcastlegirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭newcastlegirl


    Yes...it is Irish I am looking for...

    Thanks!


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    banjopaul
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭banjopaul


    newcastlegirl wrote: »
    Yes...it is Irish I am looking for...

    Thanks!

    Then 'Siúl ar aghaidh' is what I would think too, but I am by no means a native speaker! Be sure to get other opinions.
    Try here:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=31

    and here:
    http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/

    Good luck!


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