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Re: Welsh Names
Thanks for that! I was really just coming on to find out the history of Emlyn, so that's why I came to this forum... but I am LOVING all the suggestions anyway :) Saves me searching through list after list after list...I will be sticking around anyway... I am loving this site and I do a lot with our family history so it would be a good site to research some names that have come up :)On your favourite names... How you do pronounce Eira? Is it with an "I" sound out the start or an "ee"...It means snow doesn't it? I was going through the E's yesterday and found Eirian and Eirlys and Eirwen... all of which looked lovely too but I don't really know about the Ei sound... Although I am kinda sold on Bethan or Betsan...
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Eira is pronounced as ey-rah with the ey as in hey. Hope this helps. Ei is always said like this in Welsh.
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I pronounce it IE-ra (with an I sound). I know that's correct in one part of Wales (either north or south), but in the other I think it's pronounced AY-ra.
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