Message: "Oenone" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Oenone

by Wordsmith

7/13/2020, 8:49 AM

What are your thoughts on this supple, vowel-heavy Greek beauty? I pronounce it "ee-NO-nee." I love its rounded mellifluousness.

Here are some combos:

Oenone Agatha
Oenone Amaryllis
Oenone Athanasia
Oenone Bethsabée
Oenone Blanchefleur
Oenone Capucine
Oenone Celestine
Oenone Cressida
Oenone Ermengarde
Oenone Esperance
Oenone Everild
Oenone Flavia
Oenone Frederica
Oenone Frederonne
Oenone Gertrude
Oenone Gwendolen
Oenone Harriet
Oenone Hildegard
Oenone Jessamine
Oenone Katharina
Oenone Magdalene / Magdolna
Oenone Mathilda
Oenone Melisande
Oenone Merofleda
Oenone Millicent
Oenone Philippa
Oenone Philomela
Oenone Raphaela
Oenone Rosalind
Oenone Rosamund
Oenone Saskia
Oenone Scholastique
Oenone Sylvia
Oenone Tabitha
Oenone Tacita
Oenone Theodora
Oenone Ursula
Oenone Viveca
Oenone Wilhelmine
Oenone Winifred

#Oenone

This message was edited 7/13/2020, 9:33 AM

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- Lady Augusta (The Imperatrix)

7/14/2020, 3:17 AM

It's interesting and yes mellifluous but sounds "too soft and smooth" for my taste.

I like Oenone Amaryllis & Oenone Cressida from your list.

- Anneza

7/14/2020, 12:21 AM

It's the No that puts me off. Same with Noah. But of the two, I do prefer Oenone!

- Somebody random (guest)

7/13/2020, 6:39 PM

I hate how it looks - the letters are too repetitive and it honestly looks like “one one” - but I do like how it sounds.

Oenone Athanasia, Oenone Celestine, Oenone Cressida, Oenone Esperance (love Esperance), Oenone Everild, Oenone Jessamine, Oenone Magdalene, Oenone Millicent, Oenone Sylvia, and Oenone Tabitha are nice.

- MichaelSword

7/13/2020, 6:13 PM

I misread it as one-one and dislike how it looks. I love the sound, though.

I think I like it more in a combo that doesn't end in a vowel.

- Azula (peonini)

7/13/2020, 2:58 PM

I’ve had Oenone on a list for quite a while now, but I still forgot how to pronounce it sometimes. I do think the sound is vert cute, though.

Oenone Cressida is pretty.

- Belphoebe

7/13/2020, 1:51 PM

I really like the pronounciation, but I don’t like how the name looks (like a jumble of letters). At first I presumed it was prn oo-non or oo-none.

I like Oenone Tacita, Oenone Raphaela and Oenone Athanasia best

- Kerilyntaryn21

7/13/2020, 12:51 PM

Don't like it

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