How to spell Ayda in Irish???

tiomluasocein · **Joined:** Thu 01 Sep 2011 11:36 pm **Posts:** 320

Lughaidh wrote:

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I think phonetically it would be written in Irish as: Eida

but you can't have i and a of both sides of a consonant...
"Ayda" in Turkish would be pronounced "eye-dah", and this is hard to transcribe in Irish, except if you use two words ("y" is a slender sound and "d" is a broad one).
"Aigh-dath" could be used, or "Aigh-dá" in Donegal Irish...
But it looks weird. How would you transcribe "Vladimir" in Thai, or "Zhang" in Icelandic?...

Hey, those people in Connemara spell anyway they like. :LOL:

As for languages spelling names in their own orthography, it's done all the time, isn't it? At least I see it in Japanese where "Vladimir" is radami-ru （ラダミール）. But Chinese names would take on the pronunciation of the character in Japanese.

Babogcosa · **Joined:** Wed 13 Feb 2019 10:56 am **Posts:** 9

Hi... can you clarify the spelling in connemara? Is there any fada's???

Babogcosa · **Joined:** Wed 13 Feb 2019 10:56 am **Posts:** 9

Babogcosa wrote:

Hi... can you clarify the spelling in connemara? Is there any fada's???

What I mean is could i spell it Eada with fada's?

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2382

Éada would be pronounced AY-duh.

tiomluasocein · **Joined:** Thu 01 Sep 2011 11:36 pm **Posts:** 320

From what I've read in the previous comments, it seems that

Adhda (as Lugaidh suggested above)

would be a close approximation of Ayda..
I don't know right at the moment any other way to transliterate it.

Babogcosa · **Joined:** Wed 13 Feb 2019 10:56 am **Posts:** 9

That's a great help everyone, thank you all for input much appreciated

Redwolf · **Posted:** Fri 22 Feb 2019 3:41 pm

I'm still trying to work out if that first syllable is meant to be pronounced to rhyme with "day" or with "eye." That's going to make a pretty big difference.

Redwolf

Babogcosa · **Joined:** Wed 13 Feb 2019 10:56 am **Posts:** 9

Redwolf

It would sound like A-dah

Any suggestions?

Babogcosa · **Joined:** Wed 13 Feb 2019 10:56 am **Posts:** 9

Redwolf wrote:

I'm still trying to work out if that first syllable is meant to be pronounced to rhyme with "day" or with "eye." That's going to make a pretty big difference.

Redwolf

Yes like "day"

Lughaidh · **Joined:** Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2382

Redwolf > adh- is normally pronounced as -ay- in Donegal (radharc > rayrk). Radharc could be spelt réarc in Donegal (since r is always broad at the beginning of a word even before e, i, é, í).

It's pronounced like "eye" in Connachta and Munster.

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