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ArchivesNames that sound (very) different in other languages
Names like Sophia can become Sofia or Sophie, or can even go as far as Zofie and still be similar, either by sound or spelling. But about names that sound nothing like the regular form.
I'll take a name from my culture, Ibolya as an example. Ibolya is the Hungarian form of Violet, even though it sounds nothing like the english for violet (it does sound like ebola though). The reason for this is because Ibolya is the literal form of Violet in the Hungarian language.
Other names look nothing like their original form because of the pronounciation of certain letter. For example, the Somali name Cabdiraxmaan, which is the Somali for of Abd-ar-rahman . The resoning why these names look so wildly different in their latin form is because C in somali is pronounced like an a and x is a h. So using these letters, (with the -) Cadbiraxmaan becomes Aabd-ir-rahmaan, which looks a lot closer to it's original form.
But some names i don't understand, like the user-submitted Sami name Ååjjaž, which is the Sami form of Eugenia. But Ååjjaž looks nor sounds (Saying the j as a y and the Z as zh) like Eugenia.
What other names do you know that look nor sound anything like their original form? Do you know why this is?
(Sorry if this is badly written english is my second language)
I'll take a name from my culture, Ibolya as an example. Ibolya is the Hungarian form of Violet, even though it sounds nothing like the english for violet (it does sound like ebola though). The reason for this is because Ibolya is the literal form of Violet in the Hungarian language.
Other names look nothing like their original form because of the pronounciation of certain letter. For example, the Somali name Cabdiraxmaan, which is the Somali for of Abd-ar-rahman . The resoning why these names look so wildly different in their latin form is because C in somali is pronounced like an a and x is a h. So using these letters, (with the -) Cadbiraxmaan becomes Aabd-ir-rahmaan, which looks a lot closer to it's original form.
But some names i don't understand, like the user-submitted Sami name Ååjjaž, which is the Sami form of Eugenia. But Ååjjaž looks nor sounds (Saying the j as a y and the Z as zh) like Eugenia.
What other names do you know that look nor sound anything like their original form? Do you know why this is?
(Sorry if this is badly written english is my second language)
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