Greeting in Irish
The greeting for "Merry Christmas" in Irish is Nollaig Shona Duit (singular) or Nollaig Shona Daoibh (plural), the literal translation of this is "Happy Christmas to you". If "Nollaig, Shona, Duit/Daoibh" was literally translated, word for word, into English, it would be "Christmas, happy, to you".
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