A bit of translation help...

[my_sweet_rose]

I was wondering if anybody could help me with an English translation of the Manx 'Jean y chooid share jeh bea as graih', any assistance is appreciated!

Comments

[muckefuck]

I think it's "Make the best of life and love", but I don't know Manx and I'm working from my knowledge of (Munster) Irish. (Word-for-word, "Déan an chuid is fearr de bheatha agus grá", but I'm not sure the idiom carries over.)

[mwwhitesf]

http://www.gaelg.iofm.net/USE/u13500.html

[muckefuck]

That site only has a translation of half the phrase.

[daev]

It gets the tricky idiomatic part, though. The rest is just three words: bea as graih, literally "life and love." So your guess was exactly right.

[muckefuck]

Ironically, it was those three words that caused me the most trouble because as looks identical to an Irish preposition and I wasn't sure that bea wasn't cousin to beith "being", so I thought I might be dealing with some sort of small clause.

[anonymous]

Thanks for your help guys!

[tjuice]

OH MAN! I don't check the comm for a few days and while I'm gone there's a Manx question and I missed it! And other smartypantses answered it for me! DANG. I not speshulz anymore. :-(