Hey guys,
I'm completely new to this and I apologize if I have repeated anything or get anythig wrong. So I was wondering if you could tell me the translations for the word grandfather and the word grandmother.
My gandfather Seamus was irishso I would like that in Gaelic
My grandma was scottish so I would like hers in Scottish if that is possible
Again apologize if I get terminology incorrect etc.
Hope u can help!
Thanks

Hi, hollyogden, welcome to the forum. No need to repost. I've moved your post to the translation section. I will copy your request for Scottish Gaelic into that section as well.

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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).

Awesome thanks

@Other mods and translators - this was really a request for two different things "Grandfather" in Irish and "Grandmother" in Scottish Gaelic. I've made two separate threads, one in each of the relevant sections.

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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).

In Scottish Gaelic, "grandmother" is seanmhair (which is a shortened version of the Irish seanmháthair, pronouncing it almost as if a glottal stop replaced the second to last syllable). An older form was seanamhair, but I think that has gone out of use now.

Less formally, granaidh is used for "grandma" or "granny" (a loan word from English).

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

So how would I pronounce seanmhair? Thanks guys

The pronunciation would be roughly "SHENN-uh-vur". Although that extra "a" that I showed above in an older form of the spelling (seanamhair) is no longer written, it is still pronounced.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Ah I see. Thanks Appreciate your help

In the Isle of Lewis I think they pronounce "seanmhair" as "shenn-ah-vath".

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

The sound is actually somewhere in between a "th" sound and an Irish soft "r", although the "th" sound can be more audible in other locations in a word. As I understand it, that pronunciation is spreading to some other parts of the Gaeltachd and to second-language learners, because the Lewis dialect is used in a lot of teaching materials, but it is not universal.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.