Please translate "family" into Irish Gaelic...THANK YOU KINDLY!

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Apparently "family" is too short a term for the search function

Here you go (not a simple word to translate actually, depends on who you want to include)
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TLDR version, go with "Muintir"

Go with "teaghlach", because "muintir" may mean "people, inhabitants, parents" and several other things...

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Interesting. I always go with 'Muintir' as my default because I tend to include some favorite cousins that live in other states/regions in my definition of "Family" and I was taught 'Teaghlach' was pretty much immediate family/nearby. Learn something new.

I think the choice can also be dialectical, or even just based on personal preference (in Scotland, for example, muintir can sound a bit old fashioned in some contexts, and teaghlach is much more common). Here's a summary of the basic idea, plumlily:

Not all speakers agree precisely on this, but in Irish, teaghlach usually refers to the folks in your household; muintir usually refers to a broader category of people (depending on the context, it can mean your whole family, beyond just the ones in your home, or even your tribe or your “people”), and clann [from which we get the English word "clan"] may mean different things in context, but often just your children and other descendants, for example:
-- mo chlann = my children
-- mo chlann mhac = my sons
-- Tá beirt chlainne agam = I have two children
-- mo chlann clainne = my grandchildren

Clann can also be used to refer to a group, organization, or traditional clan:
-- Clanna Gael = Gaels [as a people]
-- Clann na nGael = a particular Gaelic organization
-- Clann 'IcDhòmhnaill = Clan MacDonald [in Scottish Gàidhlig -- this usage is more common in Scotland in the modern context]

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

People don't tend to use the word teaghlach in Connemara, except where it is part of a government department name (or at least they usen't to).

Muintir "people, family, relations", which is refers to the extended family, is the main word in Connemara. Muintir does tend to mean the family you came from before you got married (if you have yet.) In that respect it is like "folks, kinfolk".

There is also:

comhluadar (pronounced as cúlódar in Connemara) "family, company (as in "the company you keep")"
treibh "household, family, clan, tribe, people"
clann "family, children"
cúram "care, family" as in "the people you are responsible for providing for"
muirín "family, charge, burden" (similar to cúram above)

And because none of the above really nails the English word "(nuclear) family" on its own, there is also the loanword feaimilí.

I'd go with Muintir "family, folks" or Mo mhuintir "my family, folks", unless you are dealing with a government department.

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