How to pronounce IRISH NAMES 🇮🇪 + what they MEAN 🤔
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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I hope you enjoy the video and learn something new 😉 LOVE YOU 🥰💚
Molly x
Disclaimer: I may make mistakes with the language from time to time. I am not fluent nor a professional teacher.
Dia daoibh 👋🏻🥰
I hope you enjoy this video 😁 it’s great to upload again! I missed you all 💚
Just a few things to correct.
1. Niall is pronounced in Irish as ‘nyee-al’ and the anglicised pronunciation is the one that I say in the video.
2. Aoibhinn is generally pronounced by people as ‘ay-veen’, the way that I say it in the video but to be true to the Irish pronunciation, it should be ‘eve-inn’
3. Hence, Aoibheann should be pronounced ‘Eve-Anne’ / ‘Eve-on’, depending on which dialect you go by. I would go with the former pronunciation and I actually know someone with the anglicised version of this name ‘Eavan’ and her name is pronounced ‘Eve-anne’
4. Lastly 😂 Aoibha SHOULD be pronounced ‘Ee-va’ like ‘Eva’ 😊 but some people do pronounce it ‘Ay-va’ like Ava.
I hope that clears up any questions you might have 😊 sometimes you have to take a step back from something to realise where you’re going wrong 😅
Slán,
Molly x
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Dia duit molley , can you make a video about pronouncing Dearbhla or Dearbhlia because its a old name and people can't pronounce it properly?
So Niall should sound like the Norwegian version, Njål?
@@mrhatty2085 thank you, I was actually wondering how to pronounce Eithne.
Do you know how to pronounce "Máire"? Is it actually "Moya" ?
I love Enya and Clannad and I know the their Irish names are written differently than their English names, but I was wondering if they sound the same.
@@mrhatty2085 Many of us are still under British occupation, and all of us exist in the Anglophone hegemony.
I am not Irish, but I heard Irish was a dying language. As soon as I Googled that, found out it was true, I started a course a Duolingo (Irish) and subscribed.
You hear correct..the native Irish are being wiped out by multiculturalism
@@goingmouch3753 Yeah, it sucks, because the irish language is so cultural
Me too
@@goingmouch3753 diversity is our strength 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@brenainnmacthomais oh my god, go raibh maith agat!
I am learning Irish too at the moment, even though I am not irish and don't live in Irland. (But I absolutely love Enya and Clannad and wish to understand their language)
It's very difficult for me to learn since english is my second language as well and on duolingo I always have translate it first in English and than into German.
My name is Liberty and I don’t really like it but I absolutely LOVE that it translates to Saoirse because its such a beautiful name. Liberty doesn’t usually translate as a name in other languages (with a few exceptions, of course!) so that makes me love the Irish one even more.
I really wanted to call my daughter Liberty but was over ruled. It's an unusual, beautiful name but I agree Saoirse is beautiful too.
it's difficult when there is such a big difference between writing and pronunciation, even in names, but it sounds so beautiful. just want the Irish to be alive. Love Ireland
Not quite. It's very similar to normal Latin pronunciation. Just the gh fh mh bh etc. which is called 'Lenition'.
It's not different if you know how to read in Gaelic
After watching Song of the Sea, I fell in love with the name Saoirse. So much so in fact that my pup has that name. It's always fun spelling it or pronounce it for people.
I love song of the sea
I’m not Irish but I’m Polynesian - and I honestly love the Gaelic spelling to these names. Rather than the anglicised names. It’s like preserving the culture when you go by sticking with the true Irish spelling I think. I taught a Niamh in my class, and not only did we learn her name, but we learnt other Irish names because we wanted to. Then later on, we had an Aoife, Siobhan and Caoimhe. Their parents were shocked and so happy that we got their names right on their first day of school. Telling us that even though it’s something so small, like getting their kids names right, they felt welcomed it really warmed their hearts (Saying hi from Sydney, Australia) 💚💫
It's necessarily preserving the culture, old Irish was written in Ogham, not the Latin alphabet, the modern spellings are just an anglization of the original Irish words.
You don't preserve a culture by just spelling a name unfortunately.
@@patrickr9417But at least it helps, though.
As a french living in Ireland this video is veryyyy helping, I always have a hard time when people tell me their name and I have to write this down, it is terrible, but now thanks to you it'll be a lot easier. Also with name I sometime stumble on some weird things like I am moving to a place which is written on the papers and maps as: "Gortboy" "gortby" or "gortbui", and I was very puzzeled about it, then an Irish friend told me it is from the Irish for "gort". field and "buí". yellow, so yellow field. Now I can remember it, like it (a lot) and write/ pronounce it correctly. \(^-^)/
Thanks for all your enlightening videos, I love them.
So glad I could help 🥰
My dad was raised in Ireland but he never taught me Gaelic. it has been so hard to teach myself as all my Gaelic speaking family lives in Ireland. Your channel is awesome! Between you and Duolingo I’m hoping to make some headway. Slainte!
I love how I’m discovering that many names in English actually derive from Irish names or are anglosized versions of them. And how ignorant I was about the meanings ❤ so beautiful
Tadgh Keneally played Australian Football for the Sydney Swans. The commentators made sure they pronounced his name correctly.
Tadgh Coneely was a character in Secret of Roan Inish. I love that film.
I have been wanting to go to Ireland for ages but wanted to learn some before going so I dropped a sub and am now watching your videos
I really appreciate your effort showing how the irish language is spoken! God bless
Absolutely loved this!!! Fun and informative - what more could you ask for?
Not only is there a STRONG LIKELIHOOD 💪 that I might mispronounced or have mispronounced some of these listed Irish names, but more than that I'd say, I never knew the names listed on this list of Irish names even existed!
Have not even watched it yet but I know it will be amazing!
Haha go raibh maith agat 😊
Gaeilge i mo chroí tá fáilte romhat lol
- Aoibha sounds similar to Hungarian Éva [ ˈeːvɒ], more like in a dialect.
- I heard something similar to Gráinne in the Iron Druid novels by the name of Granuaile.
- Though not mentioned in the video, also from the Iron Druid is Siodhachan, who is the main characer of the series. There are a lot of Irish names and characters in it, being that the main characters are Irish.
- Similar to Meadhbh I heard in the Dresden Files novels, though there it's spelled Maeve. She it most definatle intoxicating...
That's so interesting! Thank you for this video 😍🙏🏼
Hi! It's Jana from Switzerland, my name is another form of Joanne! I think it's so interesting how different one and the same name can change!! Also I love your channel, keep going you're great!
You have a beautiful name 😍
I’m so glad my mom decided to name me Maeve! I love it so much.
There a usually four things that happen when someone reads my name for the first time:
1: They just can’t pronounce it at all and say “cyanide” “siniad” etc etc..
2: “Oh so you’re Irish?”
3: “Are you named after Sinèad O’conner?”
4: They call me Siobhán
😂😂 cyanide, you poor thing
OMGOSH!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video Molly thanks!
Go raibh maith agat 🥰
Dia dhuit Molly ! What an amazing video I'm really impressed!I've never seen a better video! I really love a name Seán, very common often mispronounced but I love it!?You are unrivalled!Cén físeán iontach táim an-tógtha!
Go raibh maith agat agus slán tamall!
Go raibh míle maith agat Pompi 😊💚💚
Oh my gosh finally someone have some irish content, hiii miss im kay and im a huge fan of ireland maybe becuz its unique in its own way
Maedhbh means intoxicating? Yeah, that makes sense. All those consonants would make me slur my words, too!
😂😂
Great video Molly as always. Very useful to know about the Irish names,as there is conection with your mythology. We have also mythology in Greece, so I can understand all about the names as we use names from our mythology. Well done!!!!!!
Yes it’s very interesting isn’t it? Go raibh maith agat 😊
Great stuff thanks, i live in Asia and really want to re-learn my language
I'm an American trying to connect better with my Irish roots, my great grandfather immigrated here and now here I am so many years later! I don't have all the much Irish left in me, but it's one of the parts of my heritage that I most strongly connect with. I've been using your videos along with Duolingo to help me get a better grasp on the language, and I popped over to this video to take a little break from the studying and just learn some neat new names. I never realized how many people I know have Irish names, and how common they really are over here in the states! Love the content you're putting out, it makes the whole process of learning all the linguistic rules and whatnot MUCH less intimidating, especially when I know its coming from a good source. keep up the good work! Agus, go raibh maith agat!
My wife's name: Marydon
(mom+dad's name.)
I, being from Alabama, shortened it to 'Mare i dn'
and from your tutorial I've learned 'ine' means little...and she is... 5 foot tall and maybe 100 lbs. BUT a very powerful yet feminine women.❤
My first name is the surname of my great grandmother (her maiden name). Her first name was Flax! So glad I got her last name.
So “Os” is old Irish for Deer? Oscar is interesting then in the fact that people seem to assume it’s English or from continental Europe but it’s actually completely Irish minus a single ‘a’ at the end meaning ‘deer’ (Os) and ‘friend’ (cara). Like you, I learnt deer to be be ‘fia’ but my Irish is basic.
Yes this one was really interesting to me!
Enya,is just my favourite composer..and you are called go T -hallinn..if I could just kiss,..how would I say that?..like Kiss,as in Kiss,lol
@ Oskar, or "Ansgar", in germanic means "God with Spear/Spear of the Gods" Ase=God / Ger=Spear
Is there the same Name with two different meanings? That would be really intresting
Love learning Gaelige thank you and u are hilarious!🤣dead
Thank you!
I Love The Irish Gaelic!
It's a Language similar to the Elfic Language in LOTR, spoked by Elven People!!!
Oh, I think Siobhán is lovely. I've always liked it. I've never met a Siobhán.
My Sister is named Siobhan. We are in Australia. She HATES her name. People don't know how to pronounce it, or spell it. She nicknamed herself Shabz.
She should be proud. It’s a lovely name.
I can imagine it would be annoying to have in a country where no one knows how to pronounce it 😅
Thats my sister name
thanks for the teachings....just started learning Irish although I've read it before in both translations... best for summer
Watching this again cuz I’m making a scratch project about this ^^
I have an Irish friend called Keisha (Kee-Sha). I find it really nice and unusual
Áine is my fav cause my Mom called me that and pronounced it “Awn-ya”
I'm surprised Eithne isn't on your list. Also, Siobhan is a nice name
Another favourite is Sinéad.
Also because of the meaning.
And then Sorcha, but, because of how it sounds. 💚
The voice change is hilarious ahaa.. Good craic😂
Love this! some of the names I wasn't familiar to the meaning of. Many thanks for that ;) I'm also fond of the girl's name "Sadhbh" which aparently means "goodness". By the way, not that I'm in any way fluent in the Mother Tongue... but I do believe that Niall (my own name) is pronounced more like "Neil" or maybe "Nyee-al" as Gaeillge ;P
You’re correct! habits 😂 I realised this when it was too late
Hehe not a bother. It's an all-too-common occurrence and easy done. Funny how in Scotland the name gets pronounced "Neil" which many people think is more anglicised and that "Nile" is more authentically "Gaelic". In fact, the opposite is true, I'd say!
Sadhbh is my little girls name :)
Hi, Niall. I look forward to working together with you. Niall abú!
@@niallmcstay6880 howye Niall :)
Gotta love the Closed Captions and your final words after "bye guys"...
"girl my goods august slam that."
Funny...I thought you said "go raibh maith agat agus slan leat".
My (very non-Irish) wife vetoed the idea of Aoife for our oldest girl. Shoulda pushed harder 🤣
@@cooldaddy2877 freaking autocorrect 😑
im irish and have cousins named aoife, sionainn, and aodhan, actually spelled like that. i think their names are absoulutely gorgeous but I also LOVE the name aine and bronagh and saorise and caoimhe. i also have a question. my dad's brother, my uncle, has a daugther named caiolinn, pronounced Kaylin, which I think is so pretty. I was wondering if it is a n uncommon name because it wasnt in theis video and its so prettty!!
I've never heard sorcha... that's really nice ...
Love your work so far, I've only just found your channel, and I'll continue to follow, serious question though, has Ruairi ever been adopted as a family name?
My name is Molly, and my sister was Siobhan!, but she changed it to Mairead (another Irish name) because she hated it so much.
Brilliant molly
Go raibh maith agat ☺️
@ Go ndeana se maith duit
Hi, Love your videos. I am from Belfast but now live in Canada. I have been trying to learn the Irish language and started with my name. I believe it is MallaidhAine MacGabhann. I would love to know how it is pronounced. Do you do videos that show how Irish words are pronounced - showing them phonetically?
My mom was going to name me Maeve but she didn’t want people to mispronounce it so she went with Isabel , Maeve is such a pretty name 🥺
Correct spelling is Maedhbh. 😂🤣😜
You welcome. Slan leat.
Interestingly, the name of County Kerry (Ciarraí in Irish) has the same origins as the name Ciara coming from an ancient tribe who lived in the area who had a dark complexion or dark features.
Go rabh maith agat, gurrrrl! lol We're originally from Tuame, the fastest town in Eire! I think it's just down the road form the chilliest town in Eire. There're more of those old jokes. You probably know them. : )
This is such a fun video. Ciara is also an Italian name, isn't it?
So as gaeilge, name is “on you” so ❤
I like the name cláirseach, because I’m a singer - it means “harp”.
We named our daughter Céilí.
Basically got the idea from the song “Funky Céilí. I know it’s not traditionally a name but it’s pronounced like the name Caleigh.
Thank you so much for this. I have 2 kids named Aislinn and Cillian. We live in the United States. For them to hear the real pronunciation, i.e. the way their Irish cousins from Ballyvaughan pronounce their names was very helpful as people here never ever get them right.
gotta say, Caoimhín is probably my favourite. sad its not on this list
I also get confused with "shoulder" and "soldier"
😁
0ne of my favourite names on this list, would be 0rlaith,
Because of the meaning.
I'm a newbie fantasy writer and I love to give my characters Irish names because they sound celestial
My favourite ones are Muireann and Aisling
Thank you for your video!! I've recently watched cartoons "Song of the Sea" and "The secret of Kells". And after whatching this video, I understood the meanings of the characters' names!!! Specifically, Aisling and Saoirse. The meanings really suit them)
You forgot Séamus! A fine Irish name as I'm sure Mr. Heaney and others would agree.
I didn’t forget it, just wasn’t able to cover every Irish name
My spouse is Irish his niece is Sorcha but is pronounced Sur-ika. There is also Alanna, Etaminn, the boys are Dara, Riurk( sp?), Cloudah( sp?), Colm, and many others. I do know that they are from Meath and Dublin.
One thing I’ve noticed in Irish are the inconsistencies with the diphthongs. Like
how Aoibha is “ay-va” and the diphthong is read as the desperate ‘ao+I’, BUT in Aoife it’s read as “Ee-fuh”, with the whole ‘aoi’ sound of the diphthong.
Normally (mostly) ao is pronounced /i:/, English ee. The f in Aoife is followed by an e, making it slender. But a slender consonant also needs an i or e in front, so we end up with ife just to make the f slender. Hence Aoife (-> ee-f-uh).
A slender f is pronounced differently from a broad f. Same for most consonants. Best example is s, which is pronounced broad as s and slender as sh.
Unfortunately there are a lot of rules, subrules and subsubrules for the pronunciation of vowels or vowel combinations, depending on which consonants or consonant combinations either precede or follow the vowel. And then there are those pesky exceptions of course.
So Aoibhe becomes ayve (Eva) instead of expected eeve, the bh being a v, in this case a slender v.
The net result of all those extra e's and i's that surround consonants only to make these slender, is that you never know when they are just markers, and when you must actually pronounce them, and then how, e.g. in vowel combinations like ao, eo, io, oi, ai, ei, ia, ea.
So the name Eoin becomes Owen. Who would have thought that? Well, eo is oftentimes /o:/ (long oh). The i makes the final n slender. And the w comes from nowhere, but is an inserted uh-sound. So we get oh-uh-n.
We find this inserted uh also in the name Colm (-> kolluhm) and ainm (-> èh-n-yuh-m). Ainm means name.
Hopeless. Welsh on the other hand is pretty much phonetic, once you know the thing with ff, ll, u and w.
8:54 LOLOL. So entertaining.
Fionn the Human, really fitting, now I know
"Change your name" - I did! Highly recommended!
Go raibh maith agat!
Haha go hiontach!
Would have loved you to mention Mićéal not sure if i have the fada and shava are in the right order 🤦🏼♀️ When I was registering my son many years ago, the guy told me of the old Irish spelling. I love it 💚
!!!! That is the way we pronounce Cara in Australia. I have notice Americans saying it Care-ah
the irish spelling of my name is Dubhain, My Americanized name Is Duane which I pronounce as Doo_ayn
Hey, great vid :) just wanted to ask how one would pronounce ridhcheall?
Love the intro music, puts me to sleep!
Hey you got my name on there its tadhg, I wish people would get it right there always saying tai or taiehg or just using my last name. Those people need to watch this video.
my best friend name is Colleen , she is from Corcaigh
God Bless you Dear
7:01 - Is the Irish Muireann maybe anglicized to Maureeen?
Very interesting video. :-)
You're a wonderful addition to a very hideous year! Goodluck and Godspeed in 2021! Oh If I ever have a boy I'm sold on Tadhg!
Awyna ashling !!!!! My favs . If I wasn’t 40 I’d have a bb just to give this name lol
Haha 😂 yes they are lovely
My last name is Gleeson which is a surname, but what is the real spelling also pronunciation for this name?
I'm American, love Irish names, and named my two boys Kyle and Colin. What would be the Irish spelling and pronounciation for these names?
My Grandson's paternal Irish Granny is called Mairead, and my Grandson is named Eamon ( pronounced Ay-mon)
I was hoping to find out the meaning behind that name on here, and would love to hear if anyone knows the meaning of it :)
Éamonn is am Irish version of Edmund.
Mairéad is how we say Margaret.
my great great grannys name was cordilia look that up! gem of the sea in gailic!
Oh cool 🤩
No, no it isn't
Fionnuala is a name not mentioned, Eileen (Eighlinn?) also...love Roisin, Orlaith, Grainne, Muireann, Ruari, and Tadhg....on the Murphy side of my family there were a lot of Hugh's...I gather it's a variant of Aodhan, which seems odd. I wonder if it has another origin; maybe from the Norman-French invaders. Thanks much for the names!
My name is the anglicised form of Ruadhán but I get so many other pronunciations 🙃
My understanding is that Sarah is for the Hebrew and it means princess😮
this is literally the first time ive heard anyone pronounce my name right
Bronagh is my little sisters name😃
My dad is half Irish and I'm half-irish I need to know how to say our last name and iron and it's a lot of people can't tell me what are last name means so if you need to let you know I appreciate it Ellery.
8:38
I know of a Sinéad. Namely, Sinéad O'Connor!
I believe Murrin, however it's spelled, is the name of William Wallace' wife in Braveheart.
my favorite name I think is saoirse or ashling
u missed donabhan (may have spelt it wrong) supposedly means dark haired king
We called our baby girl Ayveen, but I would've loved the original spelling, but it would cause her a headache teaching people her name. Our little Eve is a little Viking! Living the true nature of female power 🤍💪🏻
We named our children
Daughter- Ashling
Son - Rory,
I lost out on the Ruaidhri version as my wife was a "chicken" and didn't want to have to tell people how to pronounce it; having said that, we have to pronounce Ashling all the time as it gets confused with Ashlyn.
My daughter is called Caoimhe but her daddy is English so we spell it Keeva.
I'm a language teacher. Have been for 30 years. Have studied 4 languages. It's interesting to see how this language/Irish Gaelic has so many inconsistencies when it comes to the spelling. As I watch and read and try to make connections in my mind, I find it quite difficult to internalize.
Mh or bh makes a "v" sound so maeve would actually spelt meadhbh or meabh like siobhán/siobhain is shuv awn
Aoi makes an ee sound so typically aoibheann is pronounced ee vun like aoife is ee fa and saoirse is seer sha and caoimhe Is keeva/kweeva
Aine and siobhain spelt with an "ai"are pronounced like they have a fada
If you see words ending in like eann it's typically pronounced In/en like muirrean and éireann. ear would be typically pronounced ur/ar. This is without fadas of course. Alot of the time you see "ea" in the middle of the word it would be pronounced ah. And there is no k in the Irish alphabet so "c" or "ch" can make a k sound like in sorcha. I personally don't think there's a lot of inconsistencies just that lots of the these spelling have been anglicised and also irish words typically don't pronounced all the letters like in orlaith and brónagh. Even lots of irish words today have been anglicised and are missing a few letters compared to past. Whats really hard in the Irish language would be the grammar I think.
I'm Erin!! where all those Erin's out there?
How would Molly be written in Gaelic ?
I like Máirín, aka Maureen.
My name is pronounced like Sierra, but it's spelled Ciarra...I think I like this pronunciation better