Actually they make a lot of sense in our language (Irish). Not completely because like many languages the pronunciation doesn’t make sense 100% of the time
It's a different language. So the alphabet is actually different. But it uses the same letters as the English alphabet. Every language has their own alphabet, but a lot of them use the same letters, but in different ways. Cyrillic is the Russian alphabet for example. That one has the backwards R which actually makes a "yuh" sound. It's a different language. But the
There are many accents in the UK. Specifically, she has an English accent (one of many!). You can still be brought up in England and have Irish heritage!
@@Annie_Annie__ ... I know it's Welsh, but I was referring to the football player Michael Owen and the known English pronunciation but half my comment seems to have been cut out, more than likely when I highlighted to edit in the brackets.
@@glcnornes3783 Oh, gotcha. I know nothing of football, but my maiden name is Owen and I’m a bit of a name nerd. I have often wondered if my ancestors might’ve originally been Eoghan, Owain, or were indeed Owen. Tracing them to where they came from before America has been difficult, so I don’t know if they were Irish, Welsh, or maybe something more complicated.
It’s the combination mh or bh that makes a V or W sound since they don’t exist in the Irish alphabet! The Sh sound in Síle & Seamus comes from the vowels following the S! í makes an “ee” sound and “le” gives the “luh” at the end of what English speakers would hear as “sheeluh” !
This one surprised me the most as I didn't expect the name to have an f sound (labiodental fricative) in it instead of an m (labiodental nasal) in the written version).
@@swiftie_moonchild excuse our illiteracy honestly 😂 I was never taught Irish had different language, we were told all the UK speaks English with different accents
People always saying “where’s the __ letter?!” “That makes no sense there’s no letter __!!” And acting as if this isn’t a completely different language like…. Of course it’s not gonna sound right because it’s a different alphabet from a another language! It happens all the time with Welsh too!! Different languages exist y’all, just because it’s a similar alphabet doesn’t mean the same rules and sounds apply😭😭😭
A fairly common name out side of Ireland? Even among the Irish diaspora I don’t think it’s common. My only exposure to Seamuses has been Harry Potter and Archer.
@@xqueenfrostinei literally know so many seamuses and I’m from Canada? I think any country with a lot of white people would have some irish relatives called seamus
Okay as an Irish person I'm gonna point out that the top one is not "keeva" in the real Irish pronunciation, that's a way the English took it and got it wrong, it's pronounced "kweeva"
She may have Irish parents or something along those lines so never got the accent I already say I’m Irish but my family is 2 generations removed from actually living in Ireland but I have relatives I know who do
I need a crash course on Irish phonetics, the way the sounds are transcribed using letters is significantly different from how we use the letters in English. I think it's fascinating! I figured out Caoimhe because one of my favorite Irish names is Niamh (pronounced "Neeve") so I knew the "mh" makes a "v" sound. I guessed "sheila" for Sìle because the ì in Máirìn made the long "ee" sound, and the "e" at the end of Caoimhe makes the sort of schwa "uh" sound. (I feel like i have the diacritic marks backwards there but idk)
Omg I could listen to these types of reels all day Love different languages and the names that come with them Y’all are adorable Many gay greetings from Texas darlings💕
My besties name is Áine and we are both half Irish! Áine is pronounced On-ya and some ppl get VERY confused. I also know someone called Caoimhe and was used to calling her….however u say it, so I was so SHOCKED when I found out how it was spelt. I’ve learnt that Ai is pronounced O.😊
I named my kitten Samhain when I got her because shes a beautiful little black cat. I ended up having to give her a new name because so many people would not stop referring to her as Sam Hain. For those unaware, it was pronouced as Saw-win. I loved her name, it was so pretty. I knew what I would deal with naming her that, but when she needed medicine that was sent to a human pharmacy from her vet, the person put her under the name Sam Hain and couldn't find her medicine which she needed very much. After that, I decided the name was just too problematic for English speakers
one day i'm gonna impress TF out of an Irish person. 😂 every time i see a video about Irish names//words, i add 1 or 2 more to my mental compendium. i got all but 2 right on this one! ...one day! 😊 + thank you!! 🖤✊🏾
@@EMMYK1916 ooooh! 🤩 thanks! i did a bit of research on the name, cool history + at least one notable Irish historical figure w| the same name, which is dope! on one of the results that came up offered a very different pronunciation of the name - "EEver?" that's how it sounded to me at least so now i'm intrigured! gonna go a bit further down the research rabbit hole. 🤓 thank you for the cool jumping off point! LOL
Aw this is really sweet. I also have an Irish name- Aoife. It's pronounced eefa. So that's another one you can add to your list haha. I also love that our names have specific meanings like Aoife means beauty or radiant and my brother Shea (shay) means hawk like I think and my mum is Ciara (it's pronounced how the brunette in the video pronounced the first name) and it means the dark one. But thank you for taking an interest and learning about Irish names I think that's really lovely ❤
@@shendisackett No…it isn’t. Look, I’m Irish, born and raised in Dublin. I have met MANY Pádraigs before. I understand it may be difficult, but trying to correct someone without knowing the truth yourself is just rude
@@spoof2803 and I've known an Irish man who says it's Paw-rick. On further investigation it is pronounced Paw-rick in Northern Ireland and Paw-drayg as you said in Southern Ireland, both are considered correct. So we're both right 🤷🏼♀️
@@shendisackett oh. That…actually makes sense. Thank you for looking it up, actually. I would’ve spent forever disagreeing with you otherwise, lol. Ever see that illustration of two guys standing on either side of a number, disagreeing if it says ‘6’ or ‘9’? That’s basically what just happened, lol. Thank you for looking that up, and for telling me. I’m glad to know that now :)
yeh seconded. Irish heritage and BEING Irish aren't the same thing. I'm Irish (born and bred and raised there) and live in England and EVERYONE here says they're Irish ha
In fairness, maybe she's lived in the UK so long that she's lost her accent? My dad's accent got watered down after years of living in the US. Could be that happened to her too.
Btw I got 5 out of the 6 because: 1) I wanted to name my first born Caoimhean, knowing that it was pronounced kweevan or keevan (then decided maybe I should make that a middle name lol) 2) Seamus from Harry Potter like everyone else in the comments xD 3) Hadn't heard of Máirín, I must admit 4) My magickal name is Síleas 5) I've seen the Irish name for Patrick so often because of St Patrick's day And... 6) Eoin Macken from Merlin 😂
Because it's a different language with a different set of rules !! Like the name Joaquin is not pronounced the way it's written, it's a different language! :))
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Girl in my class based her whole personality on being named caoimhe, jokes on her everyone memorised it and she couldn't laugh at us for misspelling it 💪
Are you sure she based her whole personality on it or did other people project that onto her? As an adult I feel like when teenagers use this phrase it often boils down to the latter
