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The pronunciation in Ireland is FEE-ah.
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This was the #1 name for girls in Ireland in 2021, so this name has become incredibly common.
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It also means "deer" in Irish.
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It still means "deer" in Scottish Gaelic. In Irish, this is an obsolete form of fia:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiadh
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fiadh
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Ahhh, sorry! I read this article without noticing the additional "Scottish Gaelic" headline. But I think it would still be nice if the Scottish Gaelic meaning could also be added additionally.
Weirdly enough google translate shows it as meaning "deer" in Irish as well: https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=ga&tl=en&text=fiadh&op=translate but the other way around (adding "deer" in English) it shows "fianna". Strange, maybe it needs to be updated.
This article also mentions fiadh showing up as "deer/wildness" in Dinneen's dictionary but as fia in later versions: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/the-irish-for-2-5024546-Mar2020/
Here it also says it means "wild" and "deer": https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/deer-god-frank-mcnally-on-the-dramatic-surge-in-popularity-of-the-girl-s-name-fiadh-1.3811391
So I am confused. Are all of these sources mixing up the languages?
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Weirdly enough google translate shows it as meaning "deer" in Irish as well: https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=ga&tl=en&text=fiadh&op=translate but the other way around (adding "deer" in English) it shows "fianna". Strange, maybe it needs to be updated.
This article also mentions fiadh showing up as "deer/wildness" in Dinneen's dictionary but as fia in later versions: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/the-irish-for-2-5024546-Mar2020/
Here it also says it means "wild" and "deer": https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/deer-god-frank-mcnally-on-the-dramatic-surge-in-popularity-of-the-girl-s-name-fiadh-1.3811391
So I am confused. Are all of these sources mixing up the languages?
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It's kind of cute but it reminds me of the car a bit (Fiat) and it is very close in sound to the overused Mia.
Still a nice name.
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Still a nice name.
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Sounds kinda meh.
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Also an Irish short form of Sophia.
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Meaning: From the Old Irish word fiadh which originally meant "wild" in the sense of a wild animal, and often in the sense of a wild deer. It appears in the Modern Irish word Fiadhúrla "wildlife".
(Information from name #29996 originally submitted by user Ailis)
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(Information from name #29996 originally submitted by user Ailis)
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