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Welsh Names

by rosie-posie (guest)

11/9/2002, 2:17 PM

Greetings, I was hoping that someone could help me pronounce two Welsh names. I am considering using the female names Eira and Mairwen in a story I am writing. Thank you for any help that you can give me.

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- emily46 (guest) +3

11/9/2002, 5:16 PM

eira is pronounced eara asin an ear and put a as in uh at the end and mairwen is pronounced mare-when

- Merriment ap Calonycythraul (guest) +2

11/10/2002, 5:31 AM

I live in Wales and hear the name Eira fairly regularly - it's eye-ra. Mairwen is m-eye-rwen. ei and ai are the same eye sound in Welsh.

- Taff (guest) +1

1/23/2003, 2:41 PM

I suppose a lazy Welshman would say M-eye-rwen but the correct pronounciation I think should be Mai-rwen.
That is : Ma (as in Marry).

Eira: Eye-ra = Snow

Mair=Mary
Wen=White

- George Hatton (guest)

2/10/2003, 12:52 AM

Call my Mairwen Mare-wen and she will have it out with you. She is M-eye-rwen, quite adamantly! And not lazy!

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