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Name translations

  • 11-04-2012 01:43PM
    #1
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey guys I'm looking for a website that gives the translation of a lot of english names into irish. The name of it escapes me and I can't find it by google so maybe you can help me?


Comments

  • #2
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,222 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I'd guess it's probably http://www.ainm.ie/ that you're looking for.
    The linked site http://www.logainm.ie/ is great for place-names as well.


  • #3
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    I'd guess it's probably http://www.ainm.ie/ that you're looking for.
    The linked site http://www.logainm.ie/ is great for place-names as well.
    No that's not the one though it was an interesting read. The one I'm looking for has really old graphics and looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. The main background is green as well. The only reason I'm looking for this particular website is it's the only one I could ever find my surname listed.

    Sorry should have specified that actually. I'm looking for a list of personal names.


  • #4
    Insect Overlord
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    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    The one I'm looking for has really old graphics and looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. The main background is green as well.

    I found this after a quick Google search: http://www.irishidentity.com/
    Names: http://www.irishidentity.com/names.htm
    It looks like it fits your description anyway. :)


  • #5
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    I found this after a quick Google search: http://www.irishidentity.com/
    Names: http://www.irishidentity.com/names.htm
    It looks like it fits your description anyway. :)
    That's it! Thanks I'd tried google but I guess I must have been searching the wrong thing. :)


  • #6
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,222 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    That's it! Thanks I'd tried google but I guess I must have been searching the wrong thing. :)

    No problem! I'm always looking for new resources to add to my list anyway.


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  • #7
    samai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭samai


    http://www.namenerds.com/irish/lists.html is very comprehensive it has different lists; native Irish names, English names translated and even a page on names that don't traditionally have an Irish form that they have tried to translate themselves.


  • #8
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    While we are talking about Irish names, where does Peter Tremayne - author of the Sister Fidelma books - find his obscure Old Irish names?

    Most of them are names that I have never heard of anywhere else.

    tac


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