translation: 'strength' or 'grandfather'

charger · **Joined:** Wed 06 Jun 2012 6:13 pm **Posts:** 5

I am leaning towards grandfather, so just wondering if "athair mór" is ok. Had 2 people confirm this but would like some more.

Thanks for your time guys :aingeal:

Scooby · **Joined:** Tue 06 Sep 2011 7:18 pm **Posts:** 576

athair mór is correct, as is athair críonna.

Saoirse · **Posted:** Thu 07 Jun 2012 5:53 pm

charger wrote:

Just wondering if there is a, shall i say, more feminine word for strength.

What do you mean by this? Is it a particular type of strength? If you explain the context, people may have other appropriate words for you.

charger wrote:

very sorry if i offended, not my intention. But thank you, love it anyways

Thanks

It takes a lot more than that to offend around here - they are a hard nosed bunch!! :mrgreen:

CaoimhínSF · **Joined:** Sun 04 Sep 2011 11:02 pm **Posts:** 1581

I think the poster was looking for something that sounded more feminine, at least to an English speaker (in the old days, one might have said that "feminine sounding" meant something like "softer sounding", but that would be politically incorrect these days). Obviously, that's always going to be a totally subjective judgment, colored heavily by one's own native language. I only mentioned the grammatical femininity in my post as a "by the way" kind of thing. I was virtually certain that wasn't what was meant.

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2436

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I think the poster was looking for something that sounded more feminine, at least to an English speaker (in the old days, one might have said that "feminine sounding" meant something like "softer sounding", but that would be politically incorrect these days).

if you want to be politically correct, say "nicer sounding" instead :darklaugh: