May the road rise up
To meet you.
May the wind be always
At your back.
May the sun shine warm
upon your face.
May the rain fall soft
upon your field,
And until we meet again.
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
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A Celtic Blessing?
Pure Irish-American schmuck!
"May the road rise up to meet you".
Let's lay this one for once and for all.
That came from the beautiful Irish salutation
"Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat[sa]"
Using an Irish-English dictionary
and no knowledge whatever of the Irish language
you can construct as follows
by re-arranging the words of the sentence:
"Go n-/an t-ádh /éirí /leat"
but éirí can mean rise out of bed
(not up a hill) or "SUCCEED" or "ATTAIN"
ádh can be a "way" but as in "life-path" rather than 'road' which is "bóthar"
'leat' equates with the English word 'you'
but has complex rules of usage.
Look up the following words
in an Irish dictionary
to see just how complex:
agat, asat, duit, leat, ionat
They all mean 'you'
but each assumes a different pronoun.
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