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first of all - great site!!! i love to wonder in the names.
could you please tell me how do i peonounce that name (what is the meening of that little mark above the letter A in the name?)
http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=faolan
thanks, Yaron from Israel.
could you please tell me how do i peonounce that name (what is the meening of that little mark above the letter A in the name?)
http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=faolan
thanks, Yaron from Israel.
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The accent mark is called a fada. It lengthens the sound of vowels. :)
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Check in www.namenerds.com and you'll find - as I did - the pronunciation (FWAY lawn) but no explanation of the accent mark.
Quite often these marks are for historical reasons only; showing that a sound has changed or used to be written in a different way ... like the circumflex in French, which to my (limited!) knowledge just gives etymological information - the letter s having fallen away when the pronunciation changed.
Quite often these marks are for historical reasons only; showing that a sound has changed or used to be written in a different way ... like the circumflex in French, which to my (limited!) knowledge just gives etymological information - the letter s having fallen away when the pronunciation changed.
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