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ArchivesRe: How do you know how to pronounce Irish names???
in reply to a message by Kaitlyn-The Writer
To use "fada" (the accent over vowels in irish, if your keyboard can be set to "irish - gaeilge", then holding the 'altgr' button at the right hand side of space bar, pressing a vowel and releasing both buttons places the fada for you.
Faolin: this looks gramatically incorrect as a 'wide vowel' (a, o, u) on the left side of a consonant (letter 'l'), must be followed by a wide vowel. narrow vowels (i, e) by narrow vowels. Names should follow the same grammer rules though many people use their own variations of spellings.
Eimhin ('mh' has either a 'v' or a 'w' sound), in this case 'v'... so pronounced => evin.
Daithí ('th'; the 't' becomes silent), (also an 'accent' (fada) over a vowel extends the sound of the vowel. many people often make the mistake of pronouncing the irish alphabet letters the same as in english, but as a gaelic / celtic language, the sounds are different)... so pronounce => da-hee.
Síthmhaith ('t' =silent; 'mh' has 'v'sound), so say => sheevah
Faolin: this looks gramatically incorrect as a 'wide vowel' (a, o, u) on the left side of a consonant (letter 'l'), must be followed by a wide vowel. narrow vowels (i, e) by narrow vowels. Names should follow the same grammer rules though many people use their own variations of spellings.
Eimhin ('mh' has either a 'v' or a 'w' sound), in this case 'v'... so pronounced => evin.
Daithí ('th'; the 't' becomes silent), (also an 'accent' (fada) over a vowel extends the sound of the vowel. many people often make the mistake of pronouncing the irish alphabet letters the same as in english, but as a gaelic / celtic language, the sounds are different)... so pronounce => da-hee.
Síthmhaith ('t' =silent; 'mh' has 'v'sound), so say => sheevah
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