and tweepaí, which is a mixture of English and Irish spelling, would under the circumstances be pronounced "twee-pee".

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

Thanks for the replies. When you say EE ha, is there the gutteral sound, like in German word <<ich>>? Or just an ''h'' sound?

The "ch" combination in Irish can be a hard, guttural sound like the one in the German Nacht, but when occurring between vowel sounds like this it softens to approximate the "ch" in the German nicht (as pronounced in "pure" High German), although for some people it's closer to just an "h" sound, so the pronunciation of oíche is close to what an an English speaker might write phonetically as "EE-huh", with the "ee" being pronounced as in English words like "seek" or "meek".

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

..that 'ch' sound is not guttural, as it represents other elided sounds. Oíche in Munster is "EE-ha"...but you're right in saying it had that sound once.....it faded out.....I wonder what next will fade, the genitive?

OK, so what is the singular form of tweepaí?

'Tweep', I suppose? I'm not sure it actually exists in Irish, because the word 'tweeps' itself is a conjunction of 'twtter' and 'peeps' (people), so it's initially plural. And in 'tweepaí' the English plural ending (-s) is replaced with an Irish plural ending (-aí).

Or maybe, considering other loanwords (mapa - mapaí, lampa - lampaí), the singular form could be 'tweepa', but then again, I've never encountered it.

I see... OK, thanks for the reply.

I looked around a bit, and Irish speakers generally seem to use "tweeps", not tweepaí.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

And tweepaí* doesn't work as an Irish spelling. It would have to be something like tuíopaí, taopaí, or tuípí.

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