Hey y'all

Could you please translate these words into Irish if possible...

Fairy
Fae
Fairies

Thank you

The Irish for fairy is aos sí .
Fae would just be another word for fairy.

The are not cute girls with wings however they are quite michevious although they sometimes do help people if the mood strikes them . Most people would rather avoid them .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD explains the different types of Fairies from irish folk lore.

sióg (pronounced as if spelled síóg) is another word for "a fairy".

Aos sí is literally "folk of the mounds" and refers to the whole race of fairies collectively.

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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).

Sometimes it's spelt "síóg", depends on the dictionaries.
In the plural people often use "na daoiní maithe" (the good people) or "na daoiní beaga" (the little people) too.

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Eddie Lenihan (yer man who knows a thing or two about them) also calls them the Other Crowd - na daoine eile - I suppose that would be.

I thought that referred to people on another website!

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There are lots of words that represent these fairy folk, that stretch as far back as medieval times 4th or 5th century Áes síde old. Irish for Aos Sí- literally as Breandán said the people of the mounds (usually neo- lithic passage tombs) traditionally the Aes Síde would interact (euhermerisation) with the people of the upper- World (míl Espáine) during liminal times i.e during sunrise/ sun set and during Samhain your common day holloween (playing tricks on the upper- World, hence, trick or treat). A lot of pagan dates have been adopted into the Christian calender. They are also tied in with sovereignty. These Áes Síde are not like the winged folk represented in films, they are often ugly and cruel. they are related to Lucifer the fallen angel and their sole objective in later stories is to be accepted back into heaven. There are many words that represent them: na daoine/ an slua aerach. dream an uabhair and others that others have given you. In later times these fairies were used as the reason to explain tradgeties such as the untimely deaths of young people or sick people. the dead or sick person was often exchanged with that of a fairy e.g this exchanged fairy was called a síofra or a changeling there are harrowing stories of mothers or neighbours killing their children because they thought they were síofraí or changelings. This may seem odd but remember in times without technology or science the super natural were used to explain things.

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