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I have a friend named Aila, which I assume is a variant of Ayla, though it isn't on thie site. She pronounces it Eye-la. And I agree; it is a beautiful name :).

I have a friend's mother whose name is Ayla (her parents are Turkish). It is pronounced "EYE la"

AY-la, I would say

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Ayla has several derivations; click on the hyperlink for the various meanings.

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Ayla is roughly sounded out a couple of times in the book, iirc. I'm too lazy to go and look it up right now though, sorry. ;-)

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Miranda
"...his fingers trailing over your belly, your thighs quacking..." — From a The Lord of the Rings crapfic

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It is eye-lah is Hebrew, probably in Turkish too, as for English I don't know...

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~~ Claire ~~

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My dear ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen and Julian.
My dear ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny and Cordelia.

I would pronounce it EYE-luh.

I would guess either AY-lah or EYE-lah, but I'm not certain.

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I've googled Jean M. Auel's website (http://www.jeanmauel.co.uk/), and from there, I found what appears to be her official messageboard (http://p206.ezboard.com/bjeanmauel). If you go and ask your question there, her fans will probably be able to help more than we can.

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Array (who wishes she could offer more help)

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"What are these parents thinking?...Let's name her Madison--she'll live in her own world: 16 square miles surrounded by reality." -- Susan Lampert Smith