But if I managed to learn anything about the Irish language so far - it is this: spelling rules in Irish are way more consistent then in French... and in English of course! :)
@@coiridhwever3475 Maybe, but the letters seem to have very little to do with the pronunciation. It's like they just picked a random selection of 2-5 letters out of a bag to represent a sound.
@@deadpanbarry5442 I'm American with Irish Ancestry. We fled during the great potato famine. I use historical info on 16th century Irish peasantry. The same inbreeding applies to the English and most British lands. Same with the malnutrition. I remember one account talking about how the conditions were worse than an American slave.
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn For someone who has Irish ancestry why shit all over yourself and the Irish people with insults. Believe me when I say your not Irish, maybe in your head but not your soul. If you ever come to Ireland and say what you said you would be put down in seconds.
I have no clue why looking up videos on bidets would lead me here. My dear departed mother was born in Belfast and l have a grandson named Declan, but how did the algorithm know that?
Why do people forget that Ireland has it's own language and doesn't follow the English phonics. The names in Irish have such beautiful meanings and people make fun of them
My second name is Niamh since my father is Irish and my parents liked the name,but sadly we live in Germany so the people don’t know that name and sometimes make fun of the spelling and pronunciation yet I love my name
My hubby and I ended up watching this video when I was pregnant with our daughter and struggling to find a name that clicked with us. As soon as we heard you say Orla, we just knew that was it! Our daughter, Orla Abigail, is now 10 months old and we are still in love with her name!
Same! My husband is Irish and we’re looking for Irish name for our baby daughter. Watched this and fell in love with Saoirse. A risky move but we’ll see how it goes! 😂
@@ele_99 Irish is one of six Gaelic languages, born and bred in Ireland and its such a difficult language to learn. I'd say its slowly becoming more popular. I just wish our government would do more to promote and protect the language.
My name is Roisin and my siblings are Aisling and Sean. Living in England you do spend a lot of time correcting people on pronunciation and spelling but I love my name and it makes me feel closer to my Irish family ☘️ I will be naming my kids with Irish names too! Maybe Meadh or Aiobhinn (Eve-een)
I love Irish names ♥ I worked with Irish sisters and one night we were hanging out and someone asked the one sister what she would name her daughter and she spelled out the name Niamh, and I said it out loud because I've always love that name. People thought it was weird I knew that but the sisters were impressed 😁
Not true, you’re trying to pronounce these beautiful Irish names with the English language in your brain, don’t try to pronounce names in any language with English language rules, the pronunciation and spelling of these names makes perfect sense in the Irish language. I’m Irish and my name is Gráinne, the mother of Caoimhe, Saoirse and Sadhbh❤️
@@DerryK67 Sorry for the rude people who do not understand how to be respectfully of other peoples culture. My Great Grandmother was born in Dublin and so I have had a curiosity about the Gaelic.
you say this but my best friends name is áine and a teacher once called her onion by mistake in middle school and we're in college now and we still call her that
I visited Ireland last year for the first time. I went in every corner of your country and I love it. Landscape was absolutely wonderful especially the Connemara. Greetings from the Swiss alps.
We have Irish in our ancestry. One daughter decided she wanted an Irish name for her baby, a daughter. Niamh. There was only one nurse when she was born who knew how to pronounce her name and that was because she had a friend named Niamh. And there was also a nun - but she was Irish. Our Niamh has beautiful fair skin, blue eyes and red hair.
I’ve seen Orlaith, but not with the ‘f’. I like it, but if I named my child that I wouldn’t have the ‘f’ because I know their name would constantly get mispronounced. Orlaith would usually be pronounced right though, because it is pretty common in Ireland.
Lots of letters in the Roman alphabet have different sounds in different languages, even though most European languages are from the same family, starting off with one language, proto indo- european (aryan) about 6-7000 years ago around the black and caspian seas. Magyar (Hungarian), Suomi (Finnish), and Euzkadi (Basque) are the exceptions. ‘C’ can be like s or k or ch. I is frequently ee or uhn (the n is silent- it’s there to remind you to breathe out the h). O is often oo. W doesn’t exist in some - it’s pronounced v in German, as is v itself. The irish alphabet has only 19 letters. No j, k, q, v, w, y, or z. And so on. Irish is actually the closest living relative in structure, grammar and usage to ladin, a direct, little altered descendant of latin, spoken only in NE italy, sw austria and se switzerland by a small number of people. The people who became the romans were very close culturally and linguistically to the people who became the celts.
@R C That depends on what word you're saying. For example there are lots of German names or words like "validieren" (to validate), in which "V" is pronounced like a "W".
An important thing to know is that the traditional Irish alphabet is quite different from that in England. When we won independence, the nation was flat broke and stuck with the English Civil Service’s typewriters, so the language was given a major overhaul to try and fit; hence the often weird spelling- it’s like dancing in another man’s shoes.
It’s so interesting the different “old” traditional names in Irish culture compared to mine. If I met a person with any of these names I’ll compliment them because they are so beautiful
If you live in the US just know that wherever she goes she’ll have to pronounce and spell her name over and over again. Take it from someone who named their daughter Deirdre. Huh? What did you say?
I’m very Irish and my parents wanted Aine, But New, nobody would be able to pronounce it right or spell it right, so they just went with Anne. Believe it or not, everybody mispronounces that - they always call me, Annie, and it drives me crazy!
True story. There was a girl named Niamh in my highschool. One day in math we had a substitute teacher and he was doing attendance. Sub: Is NI-AM here? Niamh: It's NEEVE Sub: But it says-- Niamh: It's spelled wrong. And then the rest of the class giggled and the sub had no idea what was going on. I feel bad for him in retrospect. XD
You can't baptize a baby in the Church without a saint's name. But Ireland is beginning to reclaim its own native religion, or as much of it as can be reconstructed. It would be cool to see Druidism return to status as the official religion of Ireland.
That's because for many centuries Irish was largely a spoken language, with a seanchaí (storyteller) travelling around telling mystical tales and spreading the spoken language further. It wasn't until about the 4th or 5th Century that a form of writing was developed. MsG
Did you have a hard time learning how to spell your name? I was wondering for kids whose parents give them an Irish name but they grow up not speaking Irish or learning to read/write Irish, it must be a trip to figure out how to relate the pronunciation with the spelling.
My name is Roisin. I’m not from Ireland and have no Irish heritage, but my mum was inspired by her Irish bestie. Growing up in New Zealand no one had a clue how to pronounce my name, but I’ve always loved it
We have a similar name to “Aine” in Sweden spelled “Anja” same goes for “Aoife” and Sweden “Eva/ Evfa” very similar they pronounce the same way just spelled differently :)
I'm a coach and here's my experience with Irish names: Niamh: Hi I'm Niamh, I'm in your team this year. Me: Sorry there's no Neve in this team. Niamh: Yes, I'm in your team. Me: Are you sure? Niamh: Yes, I'm positive. Me: Ok there's probably a mistake on this list. Does anyone know where "Ni-arm-ih" is? Niamh: 🤦♀️
Siobhan M hi- I’m a Siobhan M, too🎉 I also had a beagle whom I loved more than anything and looks like you photo is s beagle?... so I just wanted to say hello🧚🏼♀️
Siobhan Mulvey hello! :) do you find your name as hard work as I do? If I go to Starbucks and they ask for my name I just say ‘Amy’ or ‘Kate’, something easy to spell haha! No way, can’t believe you had a beagle too :) we have a chocolate beagle called Winston and he is amazing and so cuddly. Beagles are hard work as puppies but definitely worth it in the long run!! X
I spend a lot of time spelling and pronouncing my name for people. Surprisingly. I think it's so simple Tam-ra. But people love to add extra vowels and syllables. Also I love your name very pretty.
I’m American born and raised but have a lot of Irish ancestry on both sides and love the Irish culture! I feel connected to it. This is so fascinating and beautiful!!! You are gorgeous! Thank you for this!!
Thanks for this! I had an amazing Irish student, Caoimhe and her sister was Niamh. Lovely, lovely girls and I adored their family as well. The meanings you give for the names are dead on as well. Sad that people don't get that the spelling and pronunciation differences are due to the fact that these are not Anglo Saxon words.
Rory Ridge We have buildings in daily use that were old ages before the US was even an idea, and before anyone except the natives knew America even existed.
@@roryridge4242 Yes! A friend once boasted that she lived in a very old house - it was built in 1823. I couldn't help but tell her that's not old. My mom's house in southern Italy is about 1000 years old - and that is NO exaggeration!
I don't know how I missed Episode 1! I was snooping around looking for a video I hadn't seen yet & my luck was good🍀 Looking at the map of Ireland's coastline.....it's daunting, to say the least. I'm already one of the Squirrels checking on you all along the way.... !Yes! Angelito is a skillful wizard & it's fun to meet your 'behind the scenes supporters'. Thank you, Lily Lu for sharing Ireland experiences with those of us who find inspiration & courage as we vicariously travel along & share the ups & downs, the twists & turns of this massive & grand journey!! "Giorraionn beirt ɓothar!" 🏃♀️➡️ 🏃🏼➡️
@@Themusiclover1322 not really for no reason, irish has a fairly standard pronunciation system (unlike english lol) so the extra letters do change how the word is pronounced and so are needed
Loved the video! Irish names are so wonderful, the spelling is a bit tricky but you only have to learn it once to be able to read those and similar words, because the Irish spelling is consistent (as opposed to English). The meanings of the names and the pronunciation are just soooo beautiful. Thanks again ❤
Imagine being an illiterate autistic irishman. It's not that bad because the letters mean nothing to me regardless of how hard it looks like it would be to pronounce
Rich Is Flecked When it’s “BH” it’s pronounced “V”. When it’s “B” it’s pronounced the same as English. Also, the spelling of names changed in the past tense, all names get a “h” after the first letter in the past tense if they start with any letter except “l,n,r” or a vowel (our alphabet is aábcdeéfghiílmnoóprstu (v in like 2 words))
Leah Keeley It’s mBha(e)n (women) - vahn with the slightest of slight m sounds before it. The ‘e’ is dialect Kind of like really stressing the Bh. Curiously, unless you know Irish, the singular is mNa. (Actually, I might have the singular and plural mixed up).
My aunt is from Ireland 🇮🇪 born and raised, I am Irish ☘️ on both sides of my family and had the honor of visiting my homeland at my aunt and uncles wedding at the K Club in 2009! Their son is named Conal. My husband and I are planning a trip back to Ireland in 2024.
My girls are Niamh & Aislinn. My mum was Irish so they were always going to have Irish names. Also love the name Àine which would have been my 3rd choice if I had another child. Ireland have beautiful names despite the difficultly some have in pronouncing them. Always love going home to Eire ☘
I have an Aislinn also! Loved that name as soon as I heard it! But I do admit, we "Americanized' the pronunciation ...Ace Linn .....instead of Ash Ling
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 does Alannah have any Irish meaning? I thought I was told it was Irish. I'm beginning to think I've been duped on meaning, origin, and spelling. Dognamit.
@@natashagoode501 Apparently it comes from an old word for a baby or young child , ( a leanbh ), but has come to mean beautiful or handsome over time in English. Irish Gaelic is very old and has many words that mean similar things. The most common word for child today would be paiste.
I've loved the name Saoirse ever since seeing the end credits of lady bird. First I though "like... Rhymes with horse?" and then I looked it up, heard Saoirse Ronan say her own name and fell in love with it.
Why am I so fascinated by the way she pronounce the letter H. Granted I am American so I find this whole thing fascinating in general since I have Irish heritage. But just completely in love with the way she pronounces the letter H!
I like to think that we give it extra huh power by saying haitch rather than aitch. Think about all the words beginning with h that have the huh sound. We just decided to add that to the letter itself.
@@hewhocannotbenamed LOL I already know how the letter z is pronounced because I lived in Canada for about 7 or so years when I was a kid. Okay that's me assuming you guys say Zed. So do you? LOL
Actually they don’t follow any language, other than Irish obviously. I’m not a native English speaker, my language is easy, you read every letter as it is. The only reason people would compare it to English is because this video is targeted towards English speakers. Don’t take it as an “English” thing, take it as “rest of the world” thing. Your language is hard, my dude!
STELLAR! I think they mean all the comments saying “How do these letters make this sound!!?” And “go home Ireland ur drunk” like..it’s a different language lol why are they so surprised it doesn’t follow English rules
the problem many people have is that while having some variations in sound, most languages using Latin letters (the ones you are reading now) have a common base on what types of sound each letter can do ...meanwhile the Irish: We like your letters but you don't have enough letters for our sounds, let's use a combination of these completly unrelated to these sounds letters to build this sound
Rachel Gill I don’t think they’re surprised, they’re just confused. I was and still am rather confused too since it also doesn’t follow my language’s rules.
I'll never name my daughters with one of these names 'cause I'm mexican and non of them rhyme with Sánchez, but all the names are beautiful and I really enjoyed the video
When you are Serbian girl, and find it interesting and weird cause in Serbian we write the way we speak, read just the way its written. There are no letters that aren't said. For example: a, b, c, won't be read as ej, bi, si but just exactly one letter. Not two. Also we say exactly as it's written and write exactly as we speak. Example: Aiden would be written as Ejdan. Jackob would be Džejkob (Џејкоб). There are bo names two same letters if only one is said. Anna is Ana, Sittah is Sita, Sarah is Sara, and so on.
That is cool! While Irish is confusing at first, once you learn the rules it makes a bit more sense. It's a heck of a lot more phonetically consistent than English. English has like 2-3 pronunciations for every letter and letter combination.
I’ve never once in my life seen Orla spelt ‘orfhlaith’ here in Ireland? Was confused by that one myself.. most popular spelling in Ireland is ‘orla’ or ‘orlaith’
I’ll never forget I was in school and one of our dorm roommates was named Siobhan. I’ll never forget she put her name on a tub of ice cream and I was like “who the hell is see-oh-ban?” she’s like that’s me... I was like woah!
Having a name that is pronounced "Kwee-va" but is written "Caoimhe" is either a determined effort to take the piss out of every foreigner visiting Ireland or a case of selecting the spelling of words by making a cat walk on a keyboard.
It’s actually spelt phonetically but using the Irish alphabet! The ‘Caoi’ part makes a ‘qwee’ sound the ‘mh’ makes ‘v’ and then ‘e’ makes an ‘a’ sound.
It’s “kee vaa” hear in tipp and a lot of others differ too. So funny how annunciation differs so much based on location in such a tiny island! Thanks for this vid :)
You solved one of my greatest riddles in childhood. When I was little I had a book and the elfish friend of the protagonist was called Aoife, I finally know how to pronounce it. Lovely Video, lovely Names!
I’m irish and it’s really funny reading the comments from canadian people and american people laughing at the spelling vs pronunciation! also for oo-na you can spell it Úna
I am of Irish descent. Our rainbow baby was born March 17th. So she is a St. Patrick's Day baby. We named her Emma Aine. She is definitely a lucky girl to us.
I once read a post that said something along the lines of "Whats the difference between an American and an European? The American thinks 300 years are a long time, while the European thinks 300 miles are a long way" and I guess that's pretty accurate.
@@papierstaudipper8580 lol yeah. America is a young country and Europe is so concentrated u can walk places. I don't drive at all. If i have to i take the train.
Ellemerob Gorgeous name and spelling! I’m just more used to the spelling Eimear, that’s why I prefer it. Just more used to it that’s all 💗 Wish you all the best with your name-choosing x
Irish Boy Names Here - ua-cam.com/video/ddTLq0a5bjI/v-deo.html 💗☘ ☘ ☘
I'm French and my name is Luaine, which is an old Irish name and I've always wondered how it's primarily pronounced ^^
MY GOD YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I love your hair.
What is the fata(sp?) for? Thanks😄. I just love Irish names!!!
Margaret Abel *fada
É- Ay
Á- Aw
Í- Ee
Ó- Oh
Ú- Oo
It changes the pronunciation of the vowel
Edit: accidentally clicked on “à” instead of “á”
How many silent letters do you want?:
Ireland: yes
Correction... "Yes" is pronounced "No" xD
😂😂😂😂
Most of them aren’t actually silent. It’s just different combinations of letters make different sounds because it’s a different language.
Grace coohl
You people who make fun of a nationality that ur not is just plain ignorant😲
I’m not Irish nor pregnant why am I here and why am I enjoying this-
lmao :D same thought
Because names and languages are just cool. I look up names all the time, just because. (But also for character names for wishful book writing)
same
alixe same
Same!
People: French is hard to pronounce
Irish with names: hold my beer
Nah we only have names like Saibh Éireann ???????
But if I managed to learn anything about the Irish language so far - it is this: spelling rules in Irish are way more consistent then in French... and in English of course! :)
I am learning Scottish Gaelic and I can pronounce all these. Gaelic spelling and pronunciation is much more consistent than English!
@@coiridhwever3475 Maybe, but the letters seem to have very little to do with the pronunciation. It's like they just picked a random selection of 2-5 letters out of a bag to represent a sound.
@@SarthorS no, some of them just have different sounds assigned to them with Gaelic orthography. I understand the struggle.
0:16 Caoimhe - Kwee-Va or Kee-Va = gentle, beautiful, precious
0:37 Áine - Awn-Ya = splendor, radiance, brillance
1:06 Aoife - Eee-Fa = beauty
1:35 Niamh - Neev or Nee-iv = radiance, brightness
2:00 Róisín - Row-Sheen = little rose
2:27 Oonagh - Ooo-Na = a lamb
2:55 Saoirse - Seer-Sha = freedom, liberty
3:32 Orfhlaith - Or-La = golden princess
4:09 Maeve - May-Ve (Medh, Maedhbh, Maébh) = intoxicating, she who intoxicates
4:57 Dearbhla - Der-Vla or Deer-Vla = daughter of the poet
5:43 Sadhbh - Sive (rhymes with "five") = sweetness, goodness
6:16 Sinéad - Shin-Aid = Gaelic version of "Jane" = God is gracious
7:01 Blathnaid - Blaw-Nid = blossom, flower
7:30 Grainne - Graw-Nya = sunshine, of the sun
7:49 Mairéad - Ma-Raid = pearl
8:16 Siobhan or Siobhán - Shi-Von = female equivalent of "Seán"
Thks for the detailed translations!
I named my daughter Siobhan,but since I'm American ,I spelled it Chavonne.Its truly a beautiful name
These are Hindu and African names.
@@julesvee1803 there can be variation of names in different parts of the world .. like Rose and Marie/Maria are common in different cultures
The faux-netics are getting to me. And the one for Siobhán is definitely wrong. The second vowel is long.
This just confirms my belief that Ireland is a fairytale kingdom and everyone there is a fairy or an elf.
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn Nah us Irish are potatoes -_-
@@-owo-8416 beautiful magical potatoes
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn I'd say your a West brit.
@@deadpanbarry5442
I'm American with Irish Ancestry. We fled during the great potato famine.
I use historical info on 16th century Irish peasantry. The same inbreeding applies to the English and most British lands. Same with the malnutrition. I remember one account talking about how the conditions were worse than an American slave.
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn For someone who has Irish ancestry why shit all over yourself and the Irish people with insults. Believe me when I say your not Irish, maybe in your head but not your soul. If you ever come to Ireland and say what you said you would be put down in seconds.
Lets just admit. None of us expected to find this in our recommended.
I just watched some Enya music videos I have a feeling that had something to do with it 😂
@@lilisimone5480 I've listening to Enya on Tidal, but how would UA-cam know that?
I have no clue why looking up videos on bidets would lead me here. My dear departed mother was born in Belfast and l have a grandson named Declan, but how did the algorithm know that?
Not surprised to see it in mine :)
Ijust thougt just that this new way of recommended videos is widening my horizons lol
Damn, Irish scrabble must be a nightmare.
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I’d imagine Welsh would be worse
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No, can’t use proper names in Scrabble. 😊
Steve Adams Brilliant Deduction!
It is so fascinating how they are spelled and pronounced so differently! 🤩
They are just spelt and pronounced in Irish, not differently as they are read in Irish
Why am I watching this?: Idk
Do I need this?: Nope
Am I still gonna watch it?: Yes sir
月T s u k i B a b y yeah but what’s up w her hair. Is that natural?
Darrel Davis what you mean she just has it dyed
I want Key and Peele’s substitute teacher to read these names.😂😂
Ha that would be so funny 😂
You took the words right out of my mouth!!!!
You said what I was thinking...
Omg yes!!😂😂😂
Why do people forget that Ireland has it's own language and doesn't follow the English phonics. The names in Irish have such beautiful meanings and people make fun of them
Yes well also consider that these people are used to Germanic or Romance orthography which are more phonetic than Irish orthography generally.
My second name is Niamh since my father is Irish and my parents liked the name,but sadly we live in Germany so the people don’t know that name and sometimes make fun of the spelling and pronunciation yet I love my name
Jesus Christ it’s called a joke I’m not offended why are you
Waffles and pancakes XD thankfully my Irish name is well recognised however Ive been subjected to a life of misspelling
OKAY BOOMER
My hubby and I ended up watching this video when I was pregnant with our daughter and struggling to find a name that clicked with us. As soon as we heard you say Orla, we just knew that was it! Our daughter, Orla Abigail, is now 10 months old and we are still in love with her name!
omg thats amazing!
Same! My husband is Irish and we’re looking for Irish name for our baby daughter. Watched this and fell in love with Saoirse. A risky move but we’ll see how it goes! 😂
@@millahs5590 Saoirse is a beautiful name. Go with it!
Aww rhays so cute. It's nice seeing Irish names being used around the world
My husband just settled on orlaith! We’re doing orlaith roisin.
We’re so excited
This makes me feel dyslexic
no you're not dyslexic. It's simply another language. The Irish language is another world, a wonderful world.
Go n-éirí an t-ádh leat, a villen.
Well I am lol and this just makes me feel frightened
jooneemoon they never said that, you must’ve misunderstood ahaha
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This makes me feel better about my dyslexia
All I know is that I could never be a teacher in Ireland.
If you teach Gaelic 😂
I almost spat out my soda XD I can relate. I was stumped on the first name! How in the --- do you get Kwee-Va from Caoimhe?!
ELENA DI RUVO they mean whenever they have to read off the names for attendance-
K B 😂😂😂😂😂👏Nice!
@@ele_99 Irish is one of six Gaelic languages, born and bred in Ireland and its such a difficult language to learn. I'd say its slowly becoming more popular. I just wish our government would do more to promote and protect the language.
„It’s spelled sbcifkgebsuchdve. You pronounce it Or-la.“ 😂
I’m Irish too
I literally laughed out loud.
😄😄😄😄
Wolfmaedchen literally half my name is silent lol
😂I'm hollering!!🤣
My name is Roisin and my siblings are Aisling and Sean. Living in England you do spend a lot of time correcting people on pronunciation and spelling but I love my name and it makes me feel closer to my Irish family ☘️ I will be naming my kids with Irish names too! Maybe Meadh or Aiobhinn (Eve-een)
The difference between spelling and writing is so impressive.... Madre mía!!!
Baikonur BKN isnt spelling and writing the same thing hahaha, I think you mean pronunciation
French is sitting somewhere thinking it was complex 😂😂😂😅😅😅
The “mh” being a “vee” sound is THROWING ME
it's thrown everyone I've known my whole life :)
Niamh Kelly your name looks so beautiful! How do you pronounce it?
@@KatKomodo oh you're so nice! I pronounce it nee-v.
Niamh Kelly beautiful! I love that and I hope you have a lovely day!
@@KatKomodo wow, you are such a wholesome and wonderful person. Thanks for the short convo and I hope YOU have an absolutely amazing day.
French: My spelling has nothing to do with how words are pronounced.
Irish: Hold my Guinness.
I mean, in french the word for "bird" is "oiseau", pronounced "wazo". I think we can get close to Irish with some of these
Irish is a phonetic language.
Lol yes
Stop that! I nearly peed myself reading this!
@@lindalennon57 why?
I love Irish names ♥ I worked with Irish sisters and one night we were hanging out and someone asked the one sister what she would name her daughter and she spelled out the name Niamh, and I said it out loud because I've always love that name. People thought it was weird I knew that but the sisters were impressed 😁
Irish names - create a sound then dip your hand in a scrabble bag to find out how you are going to spell it.
making fun of minority languages that people were literally killed for speaking makes you look great
@@abear2874 was a joke bro
Not true, you’re trying to pronounce these beautiful Irish names with the English language in your brain, don’t try to pronounce names in any language with English language rules, the pronunciation and spelling of these names makes perfect sense in the Irish language. I’m Irish and my name is Gráinne, the mother of Caoimhe, Saoirse and Sadhbh❤️
@@DerryK67 Sorry for the rude people who do not understand how to be respectfully of other peoples culture. My Great Grandmother was born in Dublin and so I have had a curiosity about the Gaelic.
Gwen Scott thank you 🙏🏻😀
Hey my name is Steve but it’s spelled Stoghce
not staoibhe by any chance?
Lmfao that's Irish names in a nutshell
Steghbh
I'm dead 😂
That’d be Staoibh
“Is Onion here?”
*visible confusion from students*
“It’s AWN-YA”
Gaelic for Anne
bts is a mess but in Russia we have the same name. Anja
Bahaha
you say this but my best friends name is áine and a teacher once called her onion by mistake in middle school and we're in college now and we still call her that
My youngest daughter's name is Anja (same pronunciation, basically a Dutch equivalent of Anne in her case), and all my other kids call her Onion.
I visited Ireland last year for the first time. I went in every corner of your country and I love it. Landscape was absolutely wonderful especially the Connemara.
Greetings from the Swiss alps.
The first name’s subtitle came up as “Queef” on my phone so that’s nice
I was wondering who else would see that lol
Haha same 😂😭
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Hahaha I saw that too
I’m dying 😊😂😂😂😂😂
French: let’s make words with as many unnecessary letters as we can!
Irish: hold my Guinness
Jenna Maria they all make sense when you speak irish
@@LK-on6rw just like in French!
I hate French for this very reason. They take a word, add ten thousand million letters but pronounce it bleh.
But they have good wine and cheese.
@@janesmith699 You should be thankful French has been simplified/modernised, or it would have been a lot more difficult.
We have Irish in our ancestry. One daughter decided she wanted an Irish name for her baby, a daughter. Niamh. There was only one nurse when she was born who knew how to pronounce her name and that was because she had a friend named Niamh. And there was also a nun - but she was Irish. Our Niamh has beautiful fair skin, blue eyes and red hair.
“O-r-f-h-l-a-i-t-h, yeah, Orla.”
Yh thats my name
Orla Gartland!!!
I’ve seen Orlaith, but not with the ‘f’. I like it, but if I named my child that I wouldn’t have the ‘f’ because I know their name would constantly get mispronounced. Orlaith would usually be pronounced right though, because it is pretty common in Ireland.
What are the other spellings of "Or-la"…? 😊
Orlagh*
"Hello, my name is Oghphloisesiorght, but it's pronounced 'heh' "
0.0 how did you know??
🤣🤣🤣
LMFAO
HAHAHAHAHA
Are you kidding?
I love the way she says "haych" instead of "aych" for H, that's so cute.
Anna Bennett I literally had this thought then I saw this comment. 🥳
I was looking for this comment 😂
That's just most non American English speaking countries
Doesnt make sense to me why you would say aych 😅 so do you say arry instead of harry haha
Lauren_r_smith no lol she was just talking about when you say the letter, not how you or ounce it
Beautifully explained. I’m fascinated with the Irish culture. Dreaming of visiting one day.
When the Irish started using Roman letters, they apparently did it in a way to spite the Romans.
Lots of letters in the Roman alphabet have different sounds in different languages, even though most European languages are from the same family, starting off with one language, proto indo- european (aryan) about 6-7000 years ago around the black and caspian seas. Magyar (Hungarian), Suomi (Finnish), and Euzkadi (Basque) are the exceptions.
‘C’ can be like s or k or ch. I is frequently ee or uhn (the n is silent- it’s there to remind you to breathe out the h). O is often oo. W doesn’t exist in some - it’s pronounced v in German, as is v itself.
The irish alphabet has only 19 letters. No j, k, q, v, w, y, or z.
And so on. Irish is actually the closest living relative in structure, grammar and usage to ladin, a direct, little altered descendant of latin, spoken only in NE italy, sw austria and se switzerland by a small number of people. The people who became the romans were very close culturally and linguistically to the people who became the celts.
Never attribute to spite that which can be adequately explained by drunken Irishman.
@R C That depends on what word you're saying. For example there are lots of German names or words like "validieren" (to validate), in which "V" is pronounced like a "W".
Still, Kevin's original sentence doesn't make sense.
An important thing to know is that the traditional Irish alphabet is quite different from that in England. When we won independence, the nation was flat broke and stuck with the English Civil Service’s typewriters, so the language was given a major overhaul to try and fit; hence the often weird spelling- it’s like dancing in another man’s shoes.
teacher: orfhlaith
orfhlaith: present !
teacher: dah... vo...nnn .. teeeee ??
davonte: its davont-ay
My sentiments exactly. There is no longer any excuse. Lol
@49jubilee but its funny though because you can pronounce the words as they are spelled out. sinead ?? foreal sheh-nade??
Teacher: Ah, Grandma.
Grainne : 🙁Here.
Grandma Grainne : Ah, that'd be me.
underrated comment
Where is A-A-ron?
It’s so interesting the different “old” traditional names in Irish culture compared to mine. If I met a person with any of these names I’ll compliment them because they are so beautiful
Sea del Mar what’s your name?
@@apenguinnamedabraham my name is María
I’m trying to convince my husband to use Áine for our daughter. Our sons name is Ronan and I just love the way they go together.
If you live in the US just know that wherever she goes she’ll have to pronounce and spell her name over and over again. Take it from someone who named their daughter Deirdre. Huh? What did you say?
@@romee5763 but Deirdre is a fantastic name so surely it's not that bad right?
I’m very Irish and my parents wanted Aine, But New, nobody would be able to pronounce it right or spell it right, so they just went with Anne. Believe it or not, everybody mispronounces that - they always call me, Annie, and it drives me crazy!
Imagine being an American teacher in Ireland and having to do roll call.....
I had the sweetest American teacher and yes the first roll call was slow 😂 she wrote them out phonetically and was grand after that.
We call it registration or reg
@@caitlinmccann5243 no we don't, we call it roll call
@@michaelmichael8314 in my school we dont I live in the north unfortunately
A Aron
De Nice
Jay Quallin
Ba Laque
To name a few
Me as a teacher: “is sadhbuh here?? What about Blathnayd? Grain?”
True story. There was a girl named Niamh in my highschool. One day in math we had a substitute teacher and he was doing attendance.
Sub: Is NI-AM here?
Niamh: It's NEEVE
Sub: But it says--
Niamh: It's spelled wrong.
And then the rest of the class giggled and the sub had no idea what was going on. I feel bad for him in retrospect. XD
TheFirstHurrah omg, poor girl 😹
That must suck, having it mispronounced all the time LOL
I’d probably name my daughter “Áine” so later if she comes to Starbucks they be putting her name as “Onion”
Probably would spell it Anya. But I like the name too.
Long-con evil genius...🤣
My sisters name is aine. Spelled that way too. We call her onion sometimes 😂
😳
My names Anya and they spelt it as “Áine” at Starbucks
My Irish catholic ancestors always used saints names for their babies. Times have changed & these old Irish legend names are now embraced.
You can't baptize a baby in the Church without a saint's name. But Ireland is beginning to reclaim its own native religion, or as much of it as can be reconstructed. It would be cool to see Druidism return to status as the official religion of Ireland.
I feel the urge to have 50 daughters so I can give them pretty irish name.
Yeah. Call one of them Caoilfhionn also known as Keelin
You do that. Good luck to you.
Nim Boo to breed with????? What r they animals
Ellemerob my sisters a Keelyn we spell it with a y tho and nobody can pronounce it or spell it 😂😂
Rebecca T Humans are animals.
Seems like the ancient Irish people just received a sheet with Latin letters in the mail, and there was no one to read it out loud for them.
This is perfect. Legit laughed out loud.
That's because for many centuries Irish was largely a spoken language, with a seanchaí (storyteller) travelling around telling mystical tales and spreading the spoken language further. It wasn't until about the 4th or 5th Century that a form of writing was developed.
MsG
omg the way she says: 'Róise' sounds exactly like 'Roosje' in dutch and that is a populair name too in our country..
Emilia Menschaert same as German. It’s close
I heard that too!
Imagine having an Irish name and being grown up in Italy since you were one year old. Yes, that's me.
Did you have a hard time learning how to spell your name? I was wondering for kids whose parents give them an Irish name but they grow up not speaking Irish or learning to read/write Irish, it must be a trip to figure out how to relate the pronunciation with the spelling.
😂🤣😂
Perfect! The country where EVERY vowel is pronounced.
The meanings of all the names are all so dreamy
ભારતીય ભાષા ઓ મા એક
My name is Roisin. I’m not from Ireland and have no Irish heritage, but my mum was inspired by her Irish bestie. Growing up in New Zealand no one had a clue how to pronounce my name, but I’ve always loved it
Do you mean Rósín?
@@luciamceleney4853surely she knows how to spell her own name?
We have a similar name to “Aine” in Sweden spelled “Anja” same goes for “Aoife” and Sweden “Eva/ Evfa” very similar they pronounce the same way just spelled differently :)
in germany too :) she pronounces like the german names Anja and Eva...
In Dutch as well! Anja is a normal name - just like Eva
Those are very common names all around rhe world.
It’s common in Poland too, not from there, somewhat common in the US too
Lepi exactly
I'm a coach and here's my experience with Irish names:
Niamh: Hi I'm Niamh, I'm in your team this year.
Me: Sorry there's no Neve in this team.
Niamh: Yes, I'm in your team.
Me: Are you sure?
Niamh: Yes, I'm positive.
Me: Ok there's probably a mistake on this list. Does anyone know where "Ni-arm-ih" is?
Niamh: 🤦♀️
I have been called
Neeme
N-e-am-h
N-I-am
Nee-ma
And my personal fave n-a-heme 🤣
That moment when for half a second I miss read coach as couch. Curse you Dyslexia*.
*I guess more precisely curse my Dyslexia.
I once had a teacher call me “Naomi”. It was a nice change from the usual “ny-am”😂.
One like is one respect for all the irish starbucks baristas ✌🏻
The Irish baristas ARE Irish?? Like these names are all so common here so they're really used to spelling them
Dumbest thing I’ve ever read hahaha
everyone here knows how to pronounce the names because they're so common lol
Irish people know Irish names 😂
Irish people can... spell Irish names? unless they have dyslexia maybe
The only one that makes sense to my non-Irish brain is Maeve
Golden_mage 2000 wait until you hear the other spelling of it
Yeah my cousin is a meadbh
😂😂😂 oh honeyyy
Tú anam bocht
Ellie Should be Meadhbh or Maibh(e). Or Meabh. The ‘d’ is aspirated, so is followed by ‘h’.
My daughters name is Maeve💕
I don’t know how I get here but this was actually quite interesting!
I think an Irish "Spelling Bee" must be really difficult.
I go to an irish school so i do a spelling test every friday.
Only if your not Irish
@@blkbks13 *you're
I hear Irish is phonetic so once you know what letters make what sound you'd have absolutely no problem! ... aside from the many silent letters
Same I think I do 3 or 2@@luciamceleney4853
My daughter, whose name is Chaeli, has a friend named Sinead and another named Maeve. The other name we almost named her was Rowan.
Amie Lawson how popular is Rowan in Ireland? My mom just got it from a book haha
Rowan Buckson I am not sure, I actually live in the US. It is such a beautiful name!
That’s interesting. My family has very strong Welsh and Schottish roots, very little Irish, and my name is Rowan. Maeve is a beautiful name!
Rowan Buckson the only Rowan I know is American so not very popular at all!
WalkTwoMoons UponTheStars We have such a large mix of different things, but were always drawn to Irish and Gaelic names.
Subtitles :
"the first name is queef" 😂😂😂😂
Edit : thanks for so many likes 👍 might as well plug myself @missbezerk4 😉👌
Literally just came to it comments to see if anyone else saw that 😭😭
@@checkmebecky7945 😂😂😂😂I'm glad you saw it too 😅👌
😂😂😂
@@ksz7148 😂😂😂😂😫
😂 that's what got me to click on the video was the subtitles lol I was like there's no way that subtitle is accurate
I’m really grateful when people make these videos because I spend my whole life spelling/pronouncing my name for everybody! 😂
Siobhan M hi- I’m a Siobhan M, too🎉 I also had a beagle whom I loved more than anything and looks like you photo is s beagle?... so I just wanted to say hello🧚🏼♀️
Siobhan M Sounds like a pain to have to tell people how to pronounce your name. Just change it to something normal
It's Okay To Be Clown Pilled ,,, Siobhán is normal & it’s also a beautiful name ...
Siobhan Mulvey hello! :) do you find your name as hard work as I do? If I go to Starbucks and they ask for my name I just say ‘Amy’ or ‘Kate’, something easy to spell haha!
No way, can’t believe you had a beagle too :) we have a chocolate beagle called Winston and he is amazing and so cuddly. Beagles are hard work as puppies but definitely worth it in the long run!! X
I spend a lot of time spelling and pronouncing my name for people. Surprisingly. I think it's so simple Tam-ra. But people love to add extra vowels and syllables. Also I love your name very pretty.
I’m American born and raised but have a lot of Irish ancestry on both sides and love the Irish culture! I feel connected to it. This is so fascinating and beautiful!!! You are gorgeous! Thank you for this!!
Thanks for this! I had an amazing Irish student, Caoimhe and her sister was Niamh. Lovely, lovely girls and I adored their family as well. The meanings you give for the names are dead on as well. Sad that people don't get that the spelling and pronunciation differences are due to the fact that these are not Anglo Saxon words.
0:15 Caoimhe
0:37 Áine
1:05 Aoife
1:35 Niamh
1:59 Róisín
2:27 Oonagh
2:54 Saoirse
3:31 Orfhlaith
4:09 Maeve
4:56 Dearbhla
5:42 Sadhbh
6:16 Sinéad
7:01 Blathnaid
7:30 Grainne
7:48 Mairéad
8:15 Siobhan
"It's not that old, maybe from the 1920's."
Me: Okay.
Me : *realizes that's 100 years*
Me: ...oh.
In Europe, old is older than US...
They have buildings that are much older than the US buildings
Rory Ridge We have buildings in daily use that were old ages before the US was even an idea, and before anyone except the natives knew America even existed.
When the language goes back 2000 years, 100 years is but the blink of an eye.
@@roryridge4242 Yes! A friend once boasted that she lived in a very old house - it was built in 1823. I couldn't help but tell her that's not old. My mom's house in southern Italy is about 1000 years old - and that is NO exaggeration!
In the US a hundred years is a long time. In Europe a hundred miles is a long distance. Relativity I suppose.
I don't know how I missed Episode 1! I was snooping around looking for a video I hadn't seen yet & my luck was good🍀 Looking at the map of Ireland's coastline.....it's daunting, to say the least. I'm already one of the Squirrels checking on you all along the way....
!Yes! Angelito is a skillful wizard & it's fun to meet your 'behind the scenes supporters'.
Thank you, Lily Lu for sharing Ireland experiences with those of us who find inspiration & courage as we vicariously travel along & share the ups & downs, the twists & turns of this massive & grand journey!!
"Giorraionn beirt ɓothar!" 🏃♀️➡️ 🏃🏼➡️
I’m a 14 year old Canadian. WHY AM I WATCHING THIS😂
I'm a 15 year old German and I have no idea
Hermine Granger 😂
M W I guess so😅
Im a 15 yr old brit and im wondering what im doing aswell!
lillie Matthews 😂
I’ve have found that there are a lot of silent letters in Irish names
ErAmGr 62 for no reason!!!
@@Themusiclover1322 not really for no reason, irish has a fairly standard pronunciation system (unlike english lol) so the extra letters do change how the word is pronounced and so are needed
ErAmGr 62 they aren’t silent letters. It makes perfect sense if you can speak irish
o o well said
They’re actually not silent lol
I’m not even pregnant...I don’t want to be pregnant...I’m still in school. Why am I here?
Kaleigh Miranda I’m here just in case I meet a future Irish friend, I can impress them by knowing how to say their name 😂
Same lol. Im only here cause my name is Irish
Kaleigh Miranda Because of the three useless letters at the end of your name, methinks? :))
off topic, but i love that your name has the “leigh” in it too. everyone spells mine wrong 😤
Kaleigh Miranda ~ So you know what not to name your kids 😂
Loved the video! Irish names are so wonderful, the spelling is a bit tricky but you only have to learn it once to be able to read those and similar words, because the Irish spelling is consistent (as opposed to English). The meanings of the names and the pronunciation are just soooo beautiful. Thanks again ❤
I’m a teenager and French Australian this video has no relevance to me Rn but it’s still interesting!!
Imagine being a dyslexic irish kid..
-But these are all very pretty names and a great video!
Irish dyslexic kid right here👋🏼 and my parents decided to call me Laoise (pronounced Lee-sha)
Imagine being an illiterate autistic irishman. It's not that bad because the letters mean nothing to me regardless of how hard it looks like it would be to pronounce
Then you'd get out of Irish, I wish
Yes when you grow up in Ireland those names are normal when I heard the way they spell a load of names I got very confused
@@bubbabearhuntington2295 x marks the spot....but do you have land then ya golden
THE CAPTIONS SAY THE “THE FIRST NAME IS QUEEF” I CANNOT I-
The Biz i wheezed
Omg..
*casually reading subtitles as QUEEF pops up* 😮 what in the world I- *hits back button to make sure name isn’t actually QUEEF*
OK, I understand, but that is totally American ... I thought the same thing .. beautiful names though.
Yeah i was like wtf at the first name.
This is really cool! I'm writing a book about a young American fellow stuck in a small Irish town, and this is sure to be fun. Thanks!
the letter b: exists
the Irish language: am i a joke to you?
Rich Is Flecked When it’s “BH” it’s pronounced “V”. When it’s “B” it’s pronounced the same as English. Also, the spelling of names changed in the past tense, all names get a “h” after the first letter in the past tense if they start with any letter except “l,n,r” or a vowel (our alphabet is aábcdeéfghiílmnoóprstu (v in like 2 words))
Like in 'bhean' which means woman, it's usually pronounced like 'vhen.'
iRxsy I’ve only heard it as “Van”, but it will only be “V” with an outside influence
Leah Keeley It’s mBha(e)n (women) - vahn with the slightest of slight m sounds before it. The ‘e’ is dialect Kind of like really stressing the Bh. Curiously, unless you know Irish, the singular is mNa. (Actually, I might have the singular and plural mixed up).
Kevin Twining mná is the plural. I’m fluent.
I love how she pronounces "h". I could listen to her talk all day!
Aine sounds like an Aussie thing “good on ya mate”
lol I thought the same thing
Hahahaha I thought that too
"Good Áine, mate!"
My aunt is from Ireland 🇮🇪 born and raised, I am Irish ☘️ on both sides of my family and had the honor of visiting my homeland at my aunt and uncles wedding at the K Club in 2009! Their son is named Conal. My husband and I are planning a trip back to Ireland in 2024.
My girls are Niamh & Aislinn. My mum was Irish so they were always going to have Irish names. Also love the name Àine which would have been my 3rd choice if I had another child. Ireland have beautiful names despite the difficultly some have in pronouncing them. Always love going home to Eire ☘
I have an Aislinn also! Loved that name as soon as I heard it! But I do admit, we "Americanized' the pronunciation ...Ace Linn .....instead of Ash Ling
Proud father of an Aislinn here! Up the Dubs!
"Irish Baby Girl Names to curse your child with a lifetime of people mispronouncing and misspelling her name"
so true...and to add to the fun factor...just move to a non-english speaking land...for daily laughs
I was born and raised in the us. But my mom likes my grandmas first name. Novice dawn, so beginning of morning.
Pan Vegan im dutch, my legal name is ineka named after my oma - after years of mispronunciations i too go by maria hah
making fun of minority languages that people were literally killed for speaking makes you look great
My name is Sinéad and I live in South Africa. Watching people try to read my name is always interesting😅
then there’s my name that means a dead treeless plain
And my name in Welsh means grand or loud which is kinda cool. ish. Annnddd in Hungarian, Ronda, means Ugly. Srsly.. .. ? :/
We call it central Florida.
Maigh seola means the level plain.
An Marbh maigh seola would be the dead level plain. 👍🤣
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 does Alannah have any Irish meaning? I thought I was told it was Irish. I'm beginning to think I've been duped on meaning, origin, and spelling. Dognamit.
@@natashagoode501 Apparently it comes from an old word for a baby or young child , ( a leanbh ), but has come to mean beautiful or handsome over time in English.
Irish Gaelic is very old and has many words that mean similar things.
The most common word for child today would be paiste.
Also you're really great at keeping a straight face while spelling out pronunciations that are completely different that the actual written name!
Sadhbh? Imagine just looking at a name list and being like “sad-hhhh-buh-hhhh”
Made me laugh. 🤣
I've loved the name Saoirse ever since seeing the end credits of lady bird. First I though "like... Rhymes with horse?" and then I looked it up, heard Saoirse Ronan say her own name and fell in love with it.
I'm not even Irish. I just love all things Irish. Even the word itself. 😊
Why am I so fascinated by the way she pronounce the letter H. Granted I am American so I find this whole thing fascinating in general since I have Irish heritage. But just completely in love with the way she pronounces the letter H!
Same here, I Love hearing her say “h”!
What county
I like to think that we give it extra huh power by saying haitch rather than aitch.
Think about all the words beginning with h that have the huh sound. We just decided to add that to the letter itself.
You're going to love how we pronounce Z.
@@hewhocannotbenamed LOL I already know how the letter z is pronounced because I lived in Canada for about 7 or so years when I was a kid. Okay that's me assuming you guys say Zed. So do you? LOL
my favorite is sadhbh prounounced "sive" its def something i text my friends when im dissapointed and being dramatic. "im sooo sadhhbh"
all these comments forgetting that Irish is its own language and our phonetics don't follow the English pronunciations o o f
Actually they don’t follow any language, other than Irish obviously. I’m not a native English speaker, my language is easy, you read every letter as it is. The only reason people would compare it to English is because this video is targeted towards English speakers. Don’t take it as an “English” thing, take it as “rest of the world” thing. Your language is hard, my dude!
STELLAR! I think they mean all the comments saying “How do these letters make this sound!!?” And “go home Ireland ur drunk” like..it’s a different language lol why are they so surprised it doesn’t follow English rules
Yep
the problem many people have is that while having some variations in sound, most languages using Latin letters (the ones you are reading now) have a common base on what types of sound each letter can do
...meanwhile the Irish: We like your letters but you don't have enough letters for our sounds, let's use a combination of these completly unrelated to these sounds letters to build this sound
Rachel Gill I don’t think they’re surprised, they’re just confused. I was and still am rather confused too since it also doesn’t follow my language’s rules.
All of these names are so beautiful!
I'll never name my daughters with one of these names 'cause I'm mexican and non of them rhyme with Sánchez, but all the names are beautiful and I really enjoyed the video
Can I just ask why your kid's name needs to rhyme with Sanchez? Claudia does not so...
How about Fia? It doesn't rhyme with Sanchez, but it sounds good with it...
@@thisisAB I think she means just goes with, not rhymes.
Siobhan Sanchez sounds beautiful ;)
@@moonsiade or Saoirse sanchez
my husbands family is from Kilkenney, so we have always wanted to give a girl if we have one a traditional irish name. fun video, beautiful names :)
When you are Serbian girl, and find it interesting and weird cause in Serbian we write the way we speak, read just the way its written. There are no letters that aren't said. For example: a, b, c, won't be read as ej, bi, si but just exactly one letter. Not two. Also we say exactly as it's written and write exactly as we speak. Example: Aiden would be written as Ejdan. Jackob would be Džejkob (Џејкоб). There are bo names two same letters if only one is said. Anna is Ana, Sittah is Sita, Sarah is Sara, and so on.
I like this! We need to stop confusing people
That is cool! While Irish is confusing at first, once you learn the rules it makes a bit more sense. It's a heck of a lot more phonetically consistent than English. English has like 2-3 pronunciations for every letter and letter combination.
So does Indonesian! :o
Exactly like in Romanian 😮
Finnish too
Orfhlaith has so many silent consonants I'm baffled!!!
Fae Tigre my sister just spells it Orla haha
Why do they do that?
I’ve never once in my life seen Orla spelt ‘orfhlaith’ here in Ireland? Was confused by that one myself.. most popular spelling in Ireland is ‘orla’ or ‘orlaith’
I know loads of orlaiths and think the spelling orfhlaith is ridiculous lol
As an Irish dancer, this is so helpful when I go to my competitions! Thank you!
you do irish dancing?! My friend is amazing at it:D
I’ve always loved Siobhán, the way it’s spelled and sounds.
The way it's spelled and the way it sounds are two completely, entirely, totally different things.
In Scottish Gaelic it’s very similar to the word soap 😅
beautiful hair! brings out those blue gray eyes beautifully
Maeve and Siobhan are quite common in Irish American families
Also in England.
in boston Aiofe, Aine, Maeve, and Niamh are for sure the top two
I’ll never forget I was in school and one of our dorm roommates was named Siobhan. I’ll never forget she put her name on a tub of ice cream and I was like “who the hell is see-oh-ban?” she’s like that’s me... I was like woah!
My best friends name is niamh
The first time I saw my friend Siobhan spell her name my mind was blown.😂
Having a name that is pronounced "Kwee-va" but is written "Caoimhe" is either a determined effort to take the piss out of every foreigner visiting Ireland or a case of selecting the spelling of words by making a cat walk on a keyboard.
Or.. “Sive” spelled Sadhbh....what the
Yep that’s how my mum picked it ... cat on the keyboard method
Only I pronounce it as Key-va
Or maybe because its not English.
I'm assuming you don't pronounce Jose like Josie because of the same reason.
@@jenster29 Lighten up, we are just having some harmless fun with it. And we pronounce Jose as "ho-seh", not "Wenceslaorosenblumentalovich"
It’s actually spelt phonetically but using the Irish alphabet! The ‘Caoi’ part makes a ‘qwee’ sound the ‘mh’ makes ‘v’ and then ‘e’ makes an ‘a’ sound.
It’s “kee vaa” hear in tipp and a lot of others differ too. So funny how annunciation differs so much based on location in such a tiny island! Thanks for this vid :)
You solved one of my greatest riddles in childhood. When I was little I had a book and the elfish friend of the protagonist was called Aoife, I finally know how to pronounce it.
Lovely Video, lovely Names!
I’m irish and it’s really funny reading the comments from canadian people and american people laughing at the spelling vs pronunciation! also for oo-na you can spell it Úna
Ella Jean 💞 I had a great Aunt Una 😊 I have Irish and Welsh on both sides. I really wish I had more knowledge of the language. It’s awesome.
These names are so beautiful. They would be butchered in Canada if we tried to pronounce them phonetically.
Thank you for sharing this!!
I am of Irish descent. Our rainbow baby was born March 17th. So she is a St. Patrick's Day baby. We named her Emma Aine. She is definitely a lucky girl to us.
Is the baby ok? What does ‘rainbow baby’ mean ? That term scares me!
You do know Emma isn’t an Irish name? Congrats on the birth of your wee daughter
@@fmcm7715 yeah, but Aine is. Sooooo🤷🏼♀️
@@janvan14 do you just call her Emma though?
@@jillcrato1680 - She was born on St Patricks Day, Rainbows appear on loads of things, for that day.
It seems like the Irish just don’t like the letter “v”
There is no V in the alphabet in the Irish language actually.
Peadar Ruane oh damn, that makes more sense😂
4:20🤷🏼♀️
Katie •
there are a lot of variants; she implied 'maeve' was a more modern take on it.
I think 'bh' is their v. Or is it 'thbh'? 😆
Orfhlaith is pronounced Orla.
Also as an American when she says "recent" and means "within 100 years" I get so confused.
How do you think the Australian feels?! 😂😂
I once read a post that said something along the lines of "Whats the difference between an American and an European? The American thinks 300 years are a long time, while the European thinks 300 miles are a long way" and I guess that's pretty accurate.
@@papierstaudipper8580 lol yeah. America is a young country and Europe is so concentrated u can walk places. I don't drive at all. If i have to i take the train.
Americans pavements side walks...I guess keeping it simple stupid is the way forward
@@binacawahaca9406 I'm European and um... There are countries that don't pave their side walks?
I love old Celtic names!! Aoifa and Aisling are my favorites.
Aiyana Little Fox Bazinet *Aoife
I love Eimear or Emer. Pronounced E - mer
Ellemerob I know loads of Eimears 💗 I much prefer it spelled Eimear rather than Emer, but that’s my opinion 💗 absolutely gorgeous name
@@LK-on6rw Hi Leah. Cuchulainn's wife was Emer so I would have to go with that spelling.
Ellemerob Gorgeous name and spelling! I’m just more used to the spelling Eimear, that’s why I prefer it. Just more used to it that’s all 💗 Wish you all the best with your name-choosing x