hello .,
i need a translation to engraved on a gift for my lover. i wanna give him a pocketwatch and there's a little space there so i wanna make it simple,,
could anyone please tell me the translation of :

"for my (dearest/beloved/etc) gladiolus, a light of august"
or
"for my gladiolus, a sword of august"

i understand there must be hard to translate it in exact words so its fine to change them, or even to make it a better phrase..as long as the "august" and "gladiolus" still there..i hope someone would kindly answer my question, thats means a lot for me.. any sugestion will be highly appreciated. thankyou so much for your attention

(and since gladiolus is a flower name (that i often symbolized to him), should it stay as "gladiolus" or there's an irish translation for that..?)

"Lóchrann Lúnasa" might work for Light of August.

Maybe, "Dom ghrá Gladiolus, Lóchrann Lúnasa".

Wait for other ideas!

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thank you so much for your response, "Lóchrann Lúnasa" is beautiful, i love it

still waiting for confirmation and other sugestion

Looks good, but some spelling issues:
Dom ghrá Glaidiólas, Lóchrann Lúnasa

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thankyou so much for the correction
i think i will use them
"Dom ghrá Glaidiólas, Lóchrann Lúnasa"

still waiting for another suggestion though, coz it's still so much time before i engraved them in my gift

(just curious, can i write it "lóchrann Lúnasa" instead of "Lóchrann Lúnasa",,just to make it similiar with the "g" in " ghrá" ..or is there a reason to capitalize "Lóchrann"? sorry for my silly question..)

That's an interesting Gaelicisation of the Latin spelling! :P



No need to capitalise the 'l' in lóchrann if you don't want to.

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okay, thanks

hey there
"Dom ghrá Glaidiólas, lóchrann Lúnasa"
can anyone kindly tell me what's these phrase means, literally?
as far as i know,
Dom=for/to me, ghrá = love, Glaidiólas = gladiolus, lóchrann=light/lantern, Lúnasa =august
but i failed at understanding this as a phrase..
just wanna be sure i know exactly what i write, before i actually use them

thanks for all the advice so far

You're nearly right in your translation, except for "dom". You translated "dom" as the preposition "do" for + mé meaning me. In this phrase however, dom is "do" for + mo my, for my.

Literally translated it means:

For my love Gladiolus, lantern of August

I have another suggestion,

Ar son mo ghrá Glaidiólas, lochrann lúnasa

For my love Gladiolus, lantern of August

Cian

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nice!
thankyou so much for the explanation and suggestion
if i may ask, is there any differences between using "dom" and "ar son mo", or is it just another variation of the phrase?