How do you pronounce Isolde?

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I -sold

Or

I-sold-eh

Iseult and Isolde are different names rather than spelling variations- I would pronounce the latter Is-old-ay and the former EE-sult. (Know a few Iseults, all Irish)

No they are versions of the same name. Isolde is from the German adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story.

-de is pronounced duh not day in German.

Being English I pronounce it the English way.

Izzy

(It’s not actually an Irish name despite being an Irish princess - the first writer of T & I was Anglo Norman. It’s not part of Irish mythology).

Is-oldie

Iz-ol-duh

Is-old (male), is-olda (female).

Eye-zold-eh

I would pronounce it iz- ol - duh in my head but my accent would probably make it iz - ol - dee in every day life.

It's e-sol-d

Like the movie, Tristan and Isolde

Iz - oll - d(u)

The (u) is very soft though and not really an u - it's the sound that looks like an upside down 'e' in the phonetic alphabet, but I can't work out how to type it on my phone, sorry!

Is - old - er

EE-soll-de

Is-awld-ee

Eye- zold-ah

My daughters name!
There are many ways to pronounce and spell it. We went with the German way after the opera... just liked it the most!
My family are French and its a popular name over there spelt the same but pronounced Iz-Old.

And then theres the Celtic versions.

So just choose whichever you like the best!

Is old.

Tricky for your daughter choosing a name which will constantly have to have the pronunciation and/or spelling corrected (I say this as someone with a similar name which I curse my parents for and only ever use the shortened version of...)

Ell-sold.

Oh, is that an I at the start? It looked like an l on the computer.

We went with the German way

Isolde is pronounced Ee-soll-de in German. The emphasis is on the SOLL.

Yep.