Blood is thicker than water? - What is the Gaelic Irish translation? Gaelic Irish translators help general Gaelic Irish translators with the translation of Blood is thicker than water?

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136 months ago

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Language pair:	English > Gaelic Irish
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Blood is thicker than water?
Context:	I want to get 'blood is thicker than water' tattooed on my foot as my family heritage is Irish. I can't find the exact way to spell it and I need it to be reliable as I don't want to be getting something tattooed on my body with a completely different meaning..
Keywords:	Tattoo, Irish, translate, help

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136 months ago

TRADUPROF wrote:

is tighe fuil na bùrn

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136 months ago

Tony Pratschke wrote:

Is fearr beagán den ghaol ná mórán den charthanas

My comment:

This is the equivalent old Irish saying and means "A little bit of relatedness is better than a lot of friendship". Make sure that the tattoist puts the accents on the vowels as given above.

My references:

Ó Domhnaill's Irish-English Dictionary (electronic version via Multidict)

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