My best friend can speak Irish Gaelic, and I'm having an antique pocket watch engraved for him.
I'd like it to say:

"For the one in whom I find Sanctuary
From your Darling Shadow"

Don té ina bhfaighim Tearmann I suppose, but someone else might have something better - so request confirmation.

I couldn't fit the whole quote in the subject line.
To request confirmation, do I just post here to ask for it?
Thank you!!

Hi, confirmation is just other translators agreeing with the proposed translation and will all happen in this thread.

However, sometimes things get busy elsewhere or the process otherwise stalls and it helps if you remind us that your request hasn't been finished. To do that, simply post a reply to the end of the thread to remind us it is here every day or so, depending on the urgency of the request.

Errigal's Don té ina bhfaighim Tearmann looks good for the first part "For the one in whom I find Sanctuary". I wonder why you have "Sanctuary" capitalised. Is it the name of a special place to you? Or did it just feel more balanced visually?

For the second part, is your nickname "Darling Shadow"? or is it "Shadow", and "darling" is just being added to it in the flow of the sentence?

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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).

And does the line break mean that the two lines are not one sentence? ’Cause if they are, the meaning changes quite a bit: “For the one in whom I find sanctuary from your darling shadow” sounds very poetic and nice—but it means something completely different from “For the one in whom I find sanctuary. From your darling(,) Shadow”.

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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.

Thanks for asking! I call him my sanctuary, and he calls me his "darling shadow". Neither have to be capitalized. I mostly just capitalized them here so that I would know which words in Gaelic meant those things. But also because they're pet names. And yes, it's one sentence. I separated it just in case I only have room to have the first part engraved.

Thank you! <3

Just wanted to make sure we were translating correctly.

kk is being a bit pedantic (or just having a joke?) If it were all on one line it would need a comma, i.e., "For the one in whom I find Sanctuary, From your Darling Shadow", otherwise "sanctuary from your Darling Shadow" would run together and you would be seeking sanctuary from someone else named "Darling Shadow" - but the line break serves to separate the two just fine.

Putting "darling" and "shadow" together could be an interesting challenge. Scáil is a nice word for "shadow" as it also means a reflection. Instead of using an adjective for "darling", which sounds a bit literal, perhaps something like scáil mo chroí "shadow of my heart" would be better for "my Darling Shadow". "From your Darling Shadow" would then become:

Ó Scáil do Chroí "From your Darling Shadow" literally "from the Shadow/Reflection of your Heart"

Wait for feedback on that ...

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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).

That's perfectly wonderful.

Thanks, but please definitely wait for more to agree or correct it as I have been known to make fatal grammatical and other errors without realising it.

Currently waiting for confirmation or correction of:

Don té ina bhfaighim Tearmann..."For the one in whom I find Sanctuary"
Ó Scáil do Chroí............................."From your Darling Shadow"

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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).

Anyone else? Confirmation or correction, please?