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How would you pronounce Cybele?

93 replies

BiscuitLover3678 · 01/04/2022 12:51

Sye as in your eye.

Sye -Bell or sye-Bee-Leh or sye-Bee-Lee

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ILoveMyMonkey · 01/04/2022 13:00

@Anoisagusaris

Cy wouldn’t be Sye would it??. Cycle

ellenpartridge · 01/04/2022 13:00

Si-bell

PlinkPlankPlunk · 01/04/2022 12:59

Cuh-bay-lay

It’s Ancient Greek and definitely has a hard C

ILoveMyMonkey · 01/04/2022 12:59

I’d read it as sigh-beel (rhyming with eel) but I would know that was wrong and ask for a correct pronunciation.

thebabynanny · 01/04/2022 12:58

Sib-el-ee maybe.

soregums · 01/04/2022 12:57

Si-bell

Anoisagusaris · 01/04/2022 12:57

Cy wouldn’t be Sye would it?? I’d pronounce it like Cymbal or Cylinder so that (made up looking) name would be be like Cybil but more like Cy-belle

AuntieStella · 01/04/2022 12:56

I thought Cybil was a homophones of Sybil (like Cybill Shepherd)

Wastwater · 01/04/2022 12:56

Sih-bell

darlingdodo · 01/04/2022 12:56

Si-bell-eh with the si as in sit

Fivebeanchilli · 01/04/2022 12:56

I would say it like Sibyl but then with ee on the end. So like Emily but with Sib instead of Em.

SushiShopSearch · 01/04/2022 12:56

si-bell, but it's such an ugly spelling

RoastedFerret · 01/04/2022 12:55

@Blossomandbee

Sye-Bell was my first thought. Followed by possibly another spelling of Cybil
This is what I thought too.
Soubriquet · 01/04/2022 12:55

@whatausername

I read it the same as Sibyl
Same

Thought it was just a different spelling

whatausername · 01/04/2022 12:54

I read it the same as Sibyl

merryhouse · 01/04/2022 12:54

Ssib-EE-lie

Blossomandbee · 01/04/2022 12:53

Sye-Bell was my first thought. Followed by possibly another spelling of Cybil

AuntieStella · 01/04/2022 12:53

si-belle

With stress on second syllable and no great certainty that would be the right way