Message: "Pronouciation of Sigrún?"

Pronouciation of Sigrún?

by Dragon_Clarinet

11/2/2008, 7:36 PM

It's Icelandic, and the ú throws me off. I'm losing the idea of how to even pronounce it.

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- Satu (_satu_)

11/4/2008, 10:01 PM

The Icelandic pronunciation of Sigrún is SI(Y)-roon:

S - as S in 'sun'
I - as I in 'in' (short vowel)
G - almost as Y in 'yes' (very soft)
R - "rolled R" (alveolar trill)
Ú - almost as OO in 'soon' (long vowel)
N - as N in 'no'

The stress is on the first syllable (the accent of the Ú does not indicate stress but the length of the vowel)

- ericita +4

11/2/2008, 8:18 PM

I don't know if there are any Icelandic-speaking people here, so I'll just say the accent mark above the U is probably just to show where the emphasis is supposed to be. So I'd say seeg-ROON. Where I live we always pronounce is SEEK-ruwn, though.

- Llewella (penguiny7) +3

11/3/2008, 2:16 AM

I'd think the accent more indicates the pronunciation of the U, not the emphasis. Otherwise it'd probably be SEEK-run or seek-RUN. Maybe not though.

Anyway, you can hear the German pronunciation here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html#S

I don't know how close that is to the Icelandic one though.

This message was edited 11/3/2008, 2:16 AM

- ericita +2

11/3/2008, 8:15 AM

I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and you're right. The ú indicates that the letter is pronounced like the "ou" in English "you", while the Icelandic "u" sounds like the German "ü". It doesn't indicate the emphasis. I just associate accent marks automatically with the emphasis. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_alphabet
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isländische_Sprache

This message was edited 11/3/2008, 8:17 AM

- Dragon_Clarinet (not logged in) (guest) +1

11/3/2008, 5:17 PM

I know I am slow to respond, but

Does that mean it would be pronounced Sea-grune? Or what?

- ericita

11/3/2008, 5:52 PM

Well, since I'm neither from Iceland nor fluent in Icelandic, I'm not sure. But it is probably something along those lines.

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