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PostPosted: Tue 08 Nov 2016 9:45 pm 
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Hello from America, and thanks very much to anyone who reads this thread!

I am trying to get a longtime dream of mine off the ground of having a small hand-made jewelry business. Many of my designs incorporate Celtic knotwork or symbolism, and I would like to give the business an Irish Gaelic name, as this is a part of my heritage. (Hopefully I will make enough money eventually to come over for a visit.)

My initial idea is the translation of "with love," as in "made with love and care." I'm not sure if it's grammatical to have just the prepositional phrase alone, though. I'm definitely open to any variations or even other ideas pertaining to jewels, jewelry, love, tradition, heritage, etc.

Thank you again. :)


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PostPosted: Wed 09 Nov 2016 12:54 am 
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scohen27 wrote:
Hello from America, and thanks very much to anyone who reads this thread!

I am trying to get a longtime dream of mine off the ground of having a small hand-made jewelry business. Many of my designs incorporate Celtic knotwork or symbolism, and I would like to give the business an Irish Gaelic name, as this is a part of my heritage. (Hopefully I will make enough money eventually to come over for a visit.)

My initial idea is the translation of "with love," as in "made with love and care." I'm not sure if it's grammatical to have just the prepositional phrase alone, though. I'm definitely open to any variations or even other ideas pertaining to jewels, jewelry, love, tradition, heritage, etc.

Thank you again. :)


le grá = with love

my suggestion ..
seodra is the Irish for jewelry, or seoda for jewels (plural). Both nice simple easy words to say. On its own, or possibly added to your name.


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PostPosted: Wed 09 Nov 2016 1:02 am 
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scohen27 wrote:
Hello from America, and thanks very much to anyone who reads this thread!

I am trying to get a longtime dream of mine off the ground of having a small hand-made jewelry business. Many of my designs incorporate Celtic knotwork or symbolism, and I would like to give the business an Irish Gaelic name, as this is a part of my heritage. (Hopefully I will make enough money eventually to come over for a visit.)

My initial idea is the translation of "with love," as in "made with love and care." I'm not sure if it's grammatical to have just the prepositional phrase alone, though. I'm definitely open to any variations or even other ideas pertaining to jewels, jewelry, love, tradition, heritage, etc.

Thank you again. :)


You might want to use something else, because a direct translation may be thought by many to be French or Spanish:
le grá
with love
deanta le grá
made with love

There's another word for love, searc, which might also work:
le searc
with love
déanta le searc
made with love
Again, though, people might be thrown off by the word"le", and see it as Spanish or French.

Since you use knots in your work, if you want something using searc which might draw attention, but would also leave people puzzled about how to pronounce it, there's this:
snaidhm seirce
love knot

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PostPosted: Wed 09 Nov 2016 1:05 am 
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My response crossed with Brid's. How about this as a possibility:

seoda searcach
love jewelry

Brid will know whether that even makes sense.

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PostPosted: Wed 09 Nov 2016 1:19 am 
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"Seodra" and "deanta le searc" are both very appealing. Thank you! I'm going to play around with some font designs...

Oh, how would these be phonetically pronounced? Google translate is zero help, haha.

Much appreciate the input!


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PostPosted: Wed 09 Nov 2016 10:20 am 
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Here's another suggestion - Lovely Jewelry - Seodra Galánta. Don't forget the accent or fada on the second 'a' - galánta can mean - fine, beautiful as well as refined and elegant. If you want to hear how they are pronounced you can look them up in the on-line dictionary www.teanglann.ie where you can click on 'pronunciation' - next to the grammar.


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PostPosted: Wed 09 Nov 2016 6:10 pm 
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Ah that's great too... thank you!!!


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PostPosted: Thu 10 Nov 2016 2:01 am 
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I think seodra galánta looks nice, and people will almost be able to pronounce it without trouble, the opening consonant being the only problem. A rough approximation of the pronunciation is "SHOW-druh GAH-lawn-tuh" or, in the southern part of Ireland, "SHOW-druh guh-LAWN-tuh", with the all caps parts showing where the emphasis lies.

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PostPosted: Thu 10 Nov 2016 9:11 pm 
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CaoimhínSF wrote:
deanta le grá
deanta le searc


scohen27 wrote:
"Seodra" and "deanta le searc" are both very appealing.


I just wanted to point out that it looks like Caoimhín made a small type-o. The word here should be "déanta" with the "fada" or 'acute accent' on the 'e'.
Thus:
déanta le grá / déanta le searc

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PostPosted: Fri 11 Nov 2016 5:51 pm 
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Thank you for the updated info! :D


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