How to pronounce IRISH NAMES 🇮🇪 + what they MEAN 🤔
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 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
Our wee community is growing 🤩
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’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.
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.
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
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!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
Your totally full off charm girrrll!!
Aw thank you 🥰
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
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!
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!
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.
Your commentary is just like how i talk and its so entertaining from a third person perspective💚
Aw thank you 😅
I'm an American but all my grandparents were born in Ireland. My middle name is tadhg. It's very useful as a conversation starter to have people look at my name on my ID and have them try to pronounce it.
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
- 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...
I just found your videos and very much enjoy them. Seeing how to pronounce words is extremely helpful. Great job!!!
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
Great idea to give us the pronouncing of the names. Please let the letters of it longer in sight. I went sometimes more than four times backwarts to see the letters again to compair it and to understand better.
Thank you for yet another wonderful and informative video, Molly! Prior to watching this I had only heard of a handful of Irish names, mostly from celebrities like Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, and of course, the great Saoirse Ronan haha. Funnily enough, my parents gave me a name that's apparently a variant spelling of the Irish name, Caolán (according to Wikipedia at least), yet I'm Chinese lol
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?
That's so interesting! Thank you for this video 😍🙏🏼
Maedhbh means intoxicating? Yeah, that makes sense. All those consonants would make me slur my words, too!
😂😂
Ever since I heard it I've always really liked the name Caiomhe
My name is Siobhan. Took me so long to love it! I’m English but my great grandmother came from Galway so I guess that was an influence?
@@cooldaddy2877I have no fada
I’m so glad my mom decided to name me Maeve! I love it so much.
I'm so glad I found you. I love my Irish culture and to have someone as beautiful as you teaching the language.... I'll be tuning in on a regular basis. O'Connell repping from Philadelphia now in SC.
Great video Molly thanks!
Go raibh maith agat 🥰
I have just discovered your channel, I´m from Argentina and I have always thought that Ireland is a great and beautiful country. I´m planning to go there in a couple of years. I suscribe to your channel because I think your content is fantastic and useful! Thanks a lot!!! Greetings from Argentina!
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 😍
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 😊💚💚
My name is Louise, but now I know that if/when I go to Éireann, I will say, "Is mise Laoise" -- nice rhyme!
Interesting about Brónagh! My grandmother's name is Dolores, which means pains in Spanish (latin root=sorrow) and she always thought it was a strange thing to name a child too.
My favorite is ”Órlaith”.
When i lived in Co Cork ( i’m Swedish ) there was an Órlaith there.
I always liked ”Siobhan” to be honest.
My own name often got…”Irishized” to Marcas or Marcus.
German guy here. I love Gaelic names. Favorite for boys "Tadhg" and for girls "Siobhán" (Sorry 😅).
Great stuff thanks, i live in Asia and really want to re-learn my language
Thank you!
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
Little pale green one... sounds like someone describing a bug they found on their plants xD
I'm happy that now I know how to pronounce these names, and some are so beautiful that I might use them in my stories. Thank you so much!
fáilte romhat 💚
That was super fun! You just crush it when you let loose! Caint pick a fave Irish name cause I really do like em all. Wish I had one, for realz. Go raibh maith agat, looking forward to the next one!
Haha go raibh maith agat 😂
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!
Oh, I think Siobhán is lovely. I've always liked it. I've never met a Siobhán.
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.
Áine is my fav cause my Mom called me that and pronounced it “Awn-ya”
Hi Mollly I just subbed, thanks for the content you created. Very educative. Interesting how many of them are similar to slavic names by pure coincidence. Saoirse=Sasha, Bronagh=Bronka(diminutive of Bronisława), Aina=Anya, etc. I missed Deirdre here. Cheers!
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 😊
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.❤
I love your channel. I live in Ireland and I had learning loads of things now with you. One day I want to learn gaelic. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
And my favourite name is Aoife😊😊😊😊😊😊
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
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
Watching this again cuz I’m making a scratch project about this ^^
I Love The Irish Gaelic!
It's a Language similar to the Elfic Language in LOTR, spoked by Elven People!!!
Hi, i really enjoyed your video, the best of luck to you!!✨✨
Biased cuz my name is Sinead but it's my favourite ❤ Used to hate it because no one could read it but now I love it so much
I have a Senan, Fionn and Sadhbh. I get compliments on their names all the time :)
We say it like it's spelled but the other way is more traditional I suppose. I heard the name on tg4 one night when I couldn't sleep. It was an interview with a man who had reached the age of 100 and lived in a tiny house in the middle of nowhere. His name was Senan and I fell in love with name and knew that's what we would call our baby if he was a boy 🥰
*You are brilliant!*
Go raibh maith agat 😅
love the new hairstyle
Another favourite is Sinéad.
Also because of the meaning.
And then Sorcha, but, because of how it sounds. 💚
Love learning Gaelige thank you and u are hilarious!🤣dead
I just found your channel. I love it. I am from Donegal and my cousins name is Bronagh and was always told it meant dark raven hair. I may be wrong but it's worth looking into
thanks for the teachings....just started learning Irish although I've read it before in both translations... best for summer
I'm surprised Eithne isn't on your list. Also, Siobhan is a nice name
gotta say, Caoimhín is probably my favourite. sad its not on this list
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!!
My (very non-Irish) wife vetoed the idea of Aoife for our oldest girl. Shoulda pushed harder 🤣
@@cooldaddy2877 freaking autocorrect 😑
The voice change is hilarious ahaa.. Good craic😂
I also get confused with "shoulder" and "soldier"
😁
0ne of my favourite names on this list, would be 0rlaith,
Because of the meaning.
I have an Irish friend called Keisha (Kee-Sha). I find it really nice and unusual
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.
Ms. Mchale you're the first teacher i've had that has cursed this much i... think.... i'm in love...... wait wait wait you're my teacher i shouldn't look at you like that lol but ye do have your charm so your middle name kinda does fit ye lass
Ha! I love that she's a bit of a lad... er, lass!
I've never heard sorcha... that's really nice ...
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.
I am named for my grandfather's favorite mountain in Co. Donegal - Errigal. Born in the US my mother added 2 more letters to change it into a regional Southern US boy girl name.
Its JeriGale Cohen Fitzgibbon Shane. Love your channel!
My name is Molly, and my sister was Siobhan!, but she changed it to Mairead (another Irish name) because she hated it so much.
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
I will send more compliments soon; for today April 20/ 21 I like that you leave in bloopers as some call them. Funny mistakes one could say.
I used to have a job picking customers up from Heathrow Airport. We used to have a lot of Irish folk coming in. I used to sit there thinking how do I pronounce their name - because I'm polite. Once I was told I was picking up a guy called Liam but it turned out to be a lady called Neave, doh, how embarrassing! Especially seeing as though I come from an Anglo-Irish family. Lovely name though. I really like Roisin too :) Thanks Molly for the enlightening video ;)
my great great grannys name was cordilia look that up! gem of the sea in gailic!
Oh cool 🤩
No, no it isn't
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 :)
I had actually looked up my last name a long time ago and I'm glad they actually got it right. We have not been saying it right though. Thank you.
@@cooldaddy2877 That it meant descendants of a blacksmith. Pretty sure that's what she said too but it's been a while since I watched this now.
Just saw your Channel for the first time today Molly. I have enjoyed the few videos I've seen. Your good sense of humour I think would help me continue to study Irish which I do in my spare time
Is mise le meas,
Ciarán.
Brilliant molly
Go raibh maith agat ☺️
@ Go ndeana se maith duit
Timestamps:
1. Aine - 1:22
2. Aisling - 1:37
3. Aoibhinn - 1:44
4. Aoibha - 2:30
5. Aoife - 2:47
6. Bronagh - 3:12
7. Caragh - 3:43
8. Caoimha - 3:57
9. Ciara - 4:16
10. Eimear - 4:44
11. Éireann- 4:59
11. Gráinne - 5:22
12. Laoise - 5:46
13. Meadhbh - 6:16
14. Muireann - 7:00
15. Niamh - 7:38
16. Orlaith - 7:43
17. Riona - 7:49
18. Róisín - 7:55
19. Saoirse - 8:17
20. Sinéad - 8:30
21. Siobhán - 8:38
22. Sionainn - 9:22
23. Sorcha - 9:43
1. Aodhan - 10:42
2. Brian - 10:56
3. Brénainn - 11:17
4. Ciaran - 11:36
5. Cillian - 11:56
6. Conor - 12:03
7. Fearghal - 12:10
8. Fionn - 12:20
9. Liam - 12:33
10. Niall - 12:42
11. Odhrán - 12:53
12. Oisín - 13:07
13. Oscar - 13:23
14. Pádraig - 13:40
15. Rian - 13:45
16. Ruairí - 13:53
17. Seán - 14:01
18. Tadhg - 14:14
you missed Cian bc she didnt put the words up on screen for it
@@bugglemagnum6213 Thanks, what's the timestamp for Cian?
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.
My nickname is Maureen whack is linedark beauty
omg Siobhan is my name 🤯🤯🤯 I’ve never heard it said in a video before
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?
the irish spelling of my name is Dubhain, My Americanized name Is Duane which I pronounce as Doo_ayn
I would like to see videos from you explaining how verbal nouns work the rules ECT. And does counting nouns work the same as counting numbers?
my best friend name is Colleen , she is from Corcaigh
God Bless you Dear
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 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)
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?
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".
Fionn the Human, really fitting, now I know
I grew up a small kid and always took comfort in my name meaning little king. Cheers from your plastic cousins. :)
So as gaeilge, name is “on you” so ❤
I like the name cláirseach, because I’m a singer - it means “harp”.
Grainne could possibly mean grain, but gra also means love in Irish so that is a possibility too!
Isn't the word "Ghranna"ugly?
@@user-kh6xp3md3v I thought it meant rude but maybe you're right