Message: "Ayelet?" - Behind the Name

Ayelet?

by Ora

2/6/2008, 8:48 PM

I'm not even kidding - I was updating my organization's listserv and this is the name of a girl on the list. I don't know her personally so I'm not sure if her name is pronounced "ay-let" or "eye-let" ... maybe it's "ay-ee-let" ... who knows!

I find it just bizarre, though, and had to share it.

Perhaps her mother is a fan of lace?

WDYT?

#Ayelet

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- tallie

2/7/2008, 1:03 PM

Well, an eyelet is "a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar" so that's all I think of when I hear it. Pronounced differently, though, I think it would be fine.

- Lauren B (guest)

2/7/2008, 3:09 AM

There's a famous sociologist named Ayelet, pronounced ay-YELL-et. I like it, but wouldn't use it because of its similarity to the word eyelet, and also to the name Violet.

- Murasaki (lady murasaki)

2/7/2008, 2:01 AM

I think it means "fawn" in Hebrew and is relatively common in Israel, it's got nothing to do with the English sense of the word. I dislike it because of a negative personal association, but it's not a bad name in itself.

- Jonquil

2/7/2008, 1:52 AM

It's one of those Hebrew names which isn't used very much outside Israel.

- molly

2/6/2008, 9:46 PM

It's a lovely Hebrew name that means "gazelle." Prn ah-YELL-et. I'm fond of it.

- Sabrina Fair (tigerlilly)

2/6/2008, 9:20 PM

I like it [m]

I say it eye-let

- Melania (melrose452)

2/6/2008, 9:15 PM

I know an Ayelet pronounced eye-EL-et. I don't think it's bizarre, but I wouldn't use it myself.

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