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fwiw, here's a link that claims to be a Gaelic-to-English dictionary
It's pretty good. Missing a lot of basic words, though.
It looks like Irish misremembered by someone who doesn't know any, possibly representing an extension of the well-known céad míle fáilte 'a hundred thousand welcomes'.
Definitely no resemblance to Welsh, which means it isn't Breton either.
Definitely no resemblance to Welsh, which means it isn't Breton either.
Yeah, I found a website about Breton translation. It didn't recognise any of the words.
So. A Cape Breton dialect of Scots Gaelic with some Canadien loan words?
Yes, Cape Breton Island is mostly people of Scottish descent, and some Gaelic is spoken there. See http://www.cbrl.ca/gaelic/ResearchE.html. I suppose if worst came to worst someone could email a Gaelic professor at one of the universities mentioned in the article - it's likely they'd know about the regional variations their language has undergone.
it can't be translated directly into English without losing some meaning
So therefore we won't translate it at all, thereby losing all meaning. Doncha just love it?
This being your question, Angel, do you want to pose it to the email link in Beans site?
inssc@nssc.library.ns.ca
OP Rubrick says: caid Now we're getting somewhere. caid (cahd) is an Irish word but makes no sense with the other words above. But he doesn't tell me what it means.
tsuwm posted a link to a Gaelic-to-English dictionary, which only lists the word i as a pronoun she, her, it feminine.
NicholasW provided me with a few clues. And Dr. Bill threw in his two cents.
Bean has posted a link to an interesting article about Cape Breton Island for me.
And Faldage, points out a link to send an email to get help on this.
So, on the heals of all this wonderful help, I just hit the "send" button asking for help from the link provided. Thank you all, and I promise to post any response I get. Meanwhile, I am going to kill the person who started this, providing I ever hear from them again!
OP Received in my e-mail today:
Hello Ms. Lasy,
I've passed your message along to the folks at the Nova Scotia Highland Village here on Cape Breton. They have a # of native Gaelic speakers there and have promised to try and do an analysis of the phrase for you.
Ian
Will keep you posted.
Will keep you posted
Arright!
It's neat to think how there are people all over the world putting their minds to your problem!
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