This is quite a large back ogham tattoo with the Irish female first name Seosaimhín, a variant form of the English, French, and German Josephine.
Tattoo Languages: Irish Gaelic
Another ogham tattoo on the upper back “clann”
Here we have another ogham tattoo on the centre upper back reading clann in Irish Gaelic.
The word clan (one n) in English is derived from the Gaelic clann (two n’s), though it holds a slightly different meaning.
English definition of clan
- A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Irish Gaelic definition of clann
- family of sons or of daughters
- Chuir Dia clann chucu, God blessed them with children
- Clann clainne, Grandchildren.
- Race, descendants
- Clanna Gael, the Gaels/the Irish, Clanna Néill, the O’Neills, Clann Dónaill, the McDonnells
Ogham tattoo on upper left back “clann”
This ogham tattoo reads “Clann” in Gaelic.
The word clan (one n) in English is derived from the Gaelic clann (two n’s), though it holds a slightly different meaning.
English definition of clan
- A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Irish Gaelic definition of clann
- family of sons or of daughters
- Chuir Dia clann chucu, God blessed them with children
- Clann clainne, Grandchildren.
- Race, descendants
- Clanna Gael, the Gaels/the Irish, Clanna Néill, the O’Neills, Clann Dónaill, the McDonnells
Upper back ogham tattoo “Saor” meaning “Free”
This nice ogham tattoo on a girl’s upper back reads saor, Irish for free. It’s a very common ogham word seen on tattoos here. She also has some concentric dotted circles for extra decoration and has the feather symbols often used to denote the begging and end of an ogham inscription.