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PostPosted: Thu 17 Jan 2013 10:02 pm 
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I know it's an idiom and idioms don't necessarily translate but i was wondering if "Toil iarnaí" might be a suitable translation for the phrase "Iron will"?
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PostPosted: Thu 17 Jan 2013 10:13 pm 
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As you have stated, it's an idiom. I wouldn't choose to use it. Why 'iron' and not 'steel' in Irish, or something else along the lines of 'unmoveable/indefatigable'?

I'd say something like rúndaingne (strong-mindedness).


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PostPosted: Fri 18 Jan 2013 12:32 am 
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De Bhaldraithe uses a hill, offering this for "He has an iron will": Tá sé chomh daingean (san intinn) le cnoc.
He also offers for "man of iron" fear gan trócaire and croí cloiche, but those both look to me to be closer in meaning to "merciless" or "hard-hearted".

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CaoimhínSF wrote:
Tá sé chomh daingean (san intinn) le cnoc.

"He's a steadfast (in mind/intent) as a hill"

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"He's a steadfast (in mind/intent) as a hill"


Yes, of course, I was reading cnoc but seeing cloch.

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CaoimhínSF wrote:
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"He's a steadfast (in mind/intent) as a hill"

Yes, of course, I was reading cnoc but seeing cloch.

Yup, done that myself on more than one occasion. :D

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PostPosted: Wed 23 Jan 2013 11:33 am 
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Haha I'd read it as cloch in the original post as well, I guess the mind sees what it wants to see!
Thanks for the help, guys.


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