My mother was from an Irish background and wanted to call me Sian or Sinead, however, my father couldn’t pronounce it and wasn’t keen on an Irish name, so I ended up with the English variant. For example caitlín is pronounced as katleen, while cáitlín is kaw-th-leen.Bear in mind this is for Munster irish and as people have said it changes depending where you are in Ireland. Anyway) so it would work for a name if we have a girl.I’m from the US! I recently read it in a book, but have no idea on its pronounciation! And yet, there is the Irish golfer Padraig Harrington who goes by the paa-drig pronounciation.My daughters name is Ffion, which is welsh and some people look at it and can’t even begin to decipher it’s pronunciation.
Eibhlin was originally a form of Aveline, and I’m pretty sure the “bh” is in there to reflect the v-sound in the first syllable of Aveline.For instance, here’s the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Eibhlin Byrne, being introduced as “eve-lin” [0:06]:And here’s little girl being introduced by a TV host as “ehv-lin” [0:06]:Here’s an Irish Gaelic speaker pronouncing it like Eileen [0:30]:The fact that an Irish-speaker pronounces Eibhlin like Eileen confuses me. I am hearing impaired and wouldn’t know how to pronounce them correctly. You think it’s a fallacy. HerI enjoy reading about different pronunciations of these difficult (for English speakers) names. However it is constantly misprounced as Ah-v-ah-Lin, Ava-lin, A-vah-Lon and Eh-v-ah-Lin. I have heard they mean the same thing. Hubby chickened out! is this Irish or Scottish?I am currently reading my illustrated encyclopedia of mythology and I am, at the moment, reading up on Celtic mythology.
The Warwick Rowers calendar is a bit of a byword for male eye candy; a male version of the Pirelli bathing suit calendar. includes VAT* is there an irish translation of gemma? You have to understand that our accents aren’t the same as yours and make allowances for that. I’m under the impresssion it would be pronounce Eh-v-eh-lea, but am hoping someone on here might have run across it somewhere before.We chose Ciera for our eldest. I’m struggling to come up with a really nice boys name though, there are so many Caolans, Cahirs, Oisins, Tiernans etc in our area.I have a student who insists she pronounces her name as “Nee-ah-may” .
?Meryl, people in my family are called those names and that is how they are pronounced. That is why you see more Kiaras than Ciaras when they want the pronunciation. Don’t know if this has been described before so apologies if I’m repeating anything.
I’m not an Irish speaker, but these links should be helpful:Hello, I’m so happy to have found this page. Ee-fuh.
Our mum gets so annoyed. Re the pronunciation, I think it can vary. @Jay – Bedelia is one of several pet forms of Bridget. But if you read the Irish spelling as an English word, you get Kate-Lynn. Irish is an ancient language and many if not most of these names have been in use throughout thousands of years, the silent letters you are referring to do not in fact exist in the Irish language as in some others, french for example which is widely spoken. We are an adoptive family and I know her birth grandmother (deceased) was also Gathel. I pronounce him Sho-sieve, my hubby says Sho-shiv? That’s why there’s a whole Aoi bit at the start. I am 14 years old :) xWe wanted to go with an Irish name for our little one when she arrives. I know because my ex Irish boyfriend (from Ireland) had this name and he absolutely hated it when anyone called him ‘O-in’!
The three individuals – Shirley, Frank and Derek – are all to be found within the pages of The Cougar Diaries, Part 1. So while my birth certificate says “Erin”, I’ve generally gone by Éireann.
It is a beautiful name, meaning radiant. It’s really just the drawback of and infusion of differences.I’m planning my children’s names with the knowledge that they probably aren’t going to be pronounced right. Listen to this example of Aoine (Friday) and that’s what you go for at the start of Aoife and how you deal with the end E! Does anyone know how this is pronounced? I was looking for some outside opions on a couple of name choices, as well as suggestions, and stumbled across this blog filled with some wonderful insights! She never understood why my mother gave me a boys name. Thank you@Deirdre – As a rule southern provences in Ireland would say Deer-dra and northern would say Deer-Dree so either is right. The letters simply have different sounds and put together in certain ways allow us to make full use of the traditional 18 letter irish alphabet. !Ace: Aedh is pronounced as the letter “A” is pronounced when spelling a word or saying the alphabet.This thread is ancient and the name has been covered but: Máire I understand that most of the time it’s either pronounced like an American would pronounce “Maura”,”Moira” (more emphasis on the OY), or “Mara” (or any of those but with a Y sound in place of the R) But there is this audio clip of Frank McCourt pronouncing it My-ra (with perhaps a bit of a W sound after the M or R for good measure), and I need to know if McCourt is just weird or if this is an actual regional pronunciationThe correct pronunciation for Máire is ”Moira” with more emphasis on the OY (unlike English diphthongs in the Irish language almost always have the emphasis on the second sound).
I love Aoife, Ciarán, and Enda.Tony, I think it is an alternate spelling of my daughter’s name Tiernagh which is pronounced Teerna. Mhark – Mark.
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