JINH wrote:
My husband is of Irish ancestry and he is a professional fighter. For his shirts he wanted his nickname in Gaelic. The pale horse...is it an mílítheach capall? And how would you pronounce it correctly?
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mílítheach capall* is wrong because most adjectives come after the noun in Irish.
Making this correction, one possibility is:
An Capall Mílítheach "The Pale Horse"
mílítheach means "pale, pallid, sickly looking" but I think
bán is the more usual word.
Báiteach is another possibility.
There is a reference to "a pale horse" in the Bible, Revelations 6:8:
Quote:
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
The corresponding verse APACAILIPSIS 6:8 in an Bíobla Naofa (the Irish Bible) is:
Quote:
D'fhéach mé, agus b’shiúd an t-each báiteach bán agus “An Bás” a ba ainm don mharcach a bhí air, agus lean Ifreann é; agus tugadh dóibh cumhacht ar an gceathrú cuid den domhan chun maraithe leis an gclaíomh, le gorta, le plá agus le hainmhithe allta na talún.
This gives us another option:
An tEach Báiteach Bán (Interestingly, the English version uses the indefinite article "a", but the Irish uses
an "the". )
capall is the usual word for horse.
each is another. Then there is
stail "stallion".
So you could also have:
An Capall Báiteach BánAn Stail Bháiteach BhánOr you could shorten it to:
An Capall BáiteachAn Stail Bháiteach
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