What "Translated from Gaelic to English" Means

The phrase "when translated from Gaelic to English" indicates that a text, word, name, or passage originally composed in a Gaelic language (Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, or Manx) has been rendered into English.

This applies to anything from:

• A single word (sláinte → "health/cheers")
• A place name (Dún na nGall → "Donegal" – "fort of the foreigners")
• A poem, song, or proverb
• An entire manuscript or book

Gaelic languages are Celtic (Goidelic branch), distinct from English (Germanic). Translation involves not just vocabulary but cultural concepts, idioms, and grammatical structures with no direct English equivalents.