Just for practice once again, another Gaelic request from the "old site" which has gone unanswered there for several weeks:



The combination of words "celebration of the anniversary of your birth" would end up being cumbersome if translated more or less literally into Gaelic, so I've taken the liberty of shortening it below. In any case, the Scottish Gaelic term for "birthday", ceann-bliadhna, has a literal meaning which is somewhat like that of the word "anniversary" (and doesn't even contain the word "birth"). It's analogous to the French word anniversaire as used in the expression "Bon anniversaire" ("Happy Birthday"), and it wouldn't be surprising to learn that it was created by analogy to the French expression (French influence on Scotland was very great for a number of centuries).

Gum bi cumail fèille do cheann-bliadhna
May the celebration of your birthday be

lìonta le faitichean-gàire agus le gàireachdainn
filled with smiles and with laughter

agus le gràdh an teaghlaich 's gràdh nan càirdean
and the love of family and the love of friends.

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

it's bon anniversaire (masculine noun)
Anniversaire comes from Latin, annus = year and versare = to turn

Isn't it possible to say "co-latha breith" or sthg like that in Gaelic? (I'm too lazy to verify )

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

Yes, co-là-breith also works. I think it's less common, but then it might also be a regional thing.

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