How about?

Tá ár gcroíthe ceangailte le chéile mar aon cheann amháin go brách

"cheann amháin" seems redundant here. I think ár gcroí is preferable here, but it may be open to debate. Apart from that, this looks good.

It actually made me wonder for a split second how two hearts, just by being joined, can become one head.

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Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

I agree, I don't think ceann amháin is necessary. I don't think ár gcroíthe is correct here either - singular is usual/normal/traditional after ár (see here) but this is a special case where the two separate hearts are being united, hence I used dá instead.

Please note that we actually have three candidates:

Tá ár gcroíthe ceangailte le chéile mar aon cheann amháin go brách (Ben)

Ár dhá gcroí fite fuaite le chéile go deo. (Tiarnan)

Ár dhá gcroí ceangailte mar aon le chéile go deo. (Breandán)


I like Tiarnan's best and would second it except for a slight feeling that the fite fuaite metaphor is a little mixed, but it is nice.

If everyone feels fite fuaite is not a problem, how about that one? What are your thoughts? (As always, feel free to mix and match as well. )

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I’m not sure exactly how it’s mixed (mixed with what?), but I do have a nagging feeling that fite fuaite isn’t quite right here. It may just be coincidence or lack of empirical evidence, but I can’t think of any examples when I’ve ever heard fite fuaite being used in a positive way. It always seems to me to be used to describe things that are tangled up together, but shouldn’t be (tape spaghetti, anyone?). Or at least, it seems to give a slightly disparaging hint to the statement, like saying two people are inseparable, but with a bit of a sneer to let the listener know that in your personal opinion, that’s not a healthy thing for these two people to be at all.

Besides that, I’ve always heard fite fuaite ina chéile, not le chéile—which FGB confirms. Are both versions commonly used?

Edit: Oh, just noticed that FGB has figh with both i, ar, and le. Ignore the last question, then.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

My image is of fite fuaite two woven or intertwined objects - not necessarily a negative image like tangled just woven together. However, hearts are round objects, how do you interweave them? I can see them being "bound together" or "united" or "melded" but not "intertwined", if you see what I mean.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Ah, I see what you mean now. Yeah, good point.

I’m not sure that really applies so much here, though—one of the other examples FGB has is tá sé fite fuaite ann ‘it is in the fibre of his being’, where I don’t really think any literal image of weaving together of ‘him’ and ‘it’ is implied.

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

Yeah, that's me thinking too hard again.


I'll second Tiarnan's Ár dhá gcroí fite fuaite le chéile go deo.


Does anyone else, besides kk, get a negative image from fite fuaite?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

True.



True too.

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I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
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"True" in a logical sense, but I guess my question to you, Bríd, is would it feel strange in the context? I suppose we are really talking about spiritual hearts, not real hearts, and then there is poetic license.

Do you have any preferences amongst the above translations? Or alternatively, how would you yourself express the idea?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).