Message: "How do you pronounce these names?"

How do you pronounce these names?

by Amanda (guest)

8/9/2003, 10:47 AM

I was looking in "the most popular" part of Behind the Name, and I found a few names that I have no idea how to pronounce. I looked them up and it gave the history and such, but not how to pronounce them.
Nevaeh (it says it is English, a created name from the name Heaven backwards!)
Eilidh
Caoimhe

Don't even get me stared on some of the French names...I can't pronounce half of them!!

#pronunciation

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- poppylena (guest)

8/9/2003, 11:55 AM

Don't know about Nevaeh but Eilidh is pronounced AY-lee and Caoimhe is pronounced KEE-va.

- Miranda (Randee15)

8/9/2003, 1:59 PM

Nevaeh: Nev-VAY-uh. :-)

- Silver (guest)

8/12/2003, 7:19 PM

well

I have heard Nevaeh pronounced as Nev-AY-uh as miranda said
also as NEYV-ee-ah, Nehv-ay (which is most appropriate as it would not just be heaven spelt backwards but pronounced properaly backwards, that is to say using the same phonemes).

- Audrey (Audrey Margarete) +2

8/13/2003, 12:23 PM

Nevaeh : NE-VAY-uh
Eilidh : EY-lyd
Caoime : KO-im

- pedant (guest) +1

1/28/2004, 6:16 PM

Caoimhé is not pronounced Ko-im... I thought it was Kee-veh/Kee-vee,
though another poster, below has put Kee-va. It's gaelic.

- Sara (guest)

3/9/2004, 2:44 PM

I know someone who had a baby named Caoimhe (the baby died shortly after birth) and her name was pronounced Keev-na.

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