Irish ladies pls how do you pronouce this girl's name?

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My cousin has just named her baby girl Labhaolse. Can anybody re-write this as you would say it, so I know how to pronounce this?

I apologise on behalf of my mum who does not like it just because she can't say it - I did swiftly tell her it's probably a very pretty name if only we could pronounce it and would love to ring her back and tell her how it sounds.

TIA!

I think its Lee-sha

A form of louise
I think

Googled & got

Labhaoise - (LAU-ee-shuh) "holiness"; Louisa, Louise

ahh, I did wonder about a form of Louise, that seemed like the nearest similarity. very pretty if so.

and its an i not a L

GOOGLE!!! OMG I live my life by google why didn't I think of that?!! thanks ladies.

ooh do you mind if i hijack this thread and ask how to pronounce the name Aoife?

Whizzz is right.

I've never come across that particular variation of that name before but that's how it would be pronounced all right.

BTW it's LAU to rhyme with COW rather than LAU to rhyme with THAW.

just thinking of the majority of the population that are going to call her Lab-Hose

i find this with alot of irish origin names they are so difficult to spell/pronounce but when you know how they do sound so pretty
that sounds so unusual but i have no idea how to pronounce it looks as if it could be as tiredmama says a form of louise. lovely name if it is lee-sha though
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My Google tells me

AOIFE (pr. Ee-fah): This old Irish name is a variant on 'Eva'. There have been many Aoifes in Irish mythology and folklore, one of the most notable of which was the Aoife who married the legendary Irish warrior Strongbow at Waterford many centuries ago.

Aoife is pronounced EEF- uh (stress on first syllable)

aoife = ee-fa

dd is a caoimhe - that raises some eyebrows

pelvic, think Aoife is pronounced Eee-fa

PFNM its pronounced ee-fah as far as i know. i worked with a girl with this name (same spelling) and thats how she pronounced her name
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I was just going to ask the same question pelvicfloor... as I saw the name somewhere yesterday.

I remember when Bananarama first came out, thinking that the girl was called Sio-bahn. I thought it was a lovely name and felt like a right twit when someone told me the correct pronunciation. I was only 11 though.

caoimhe - qwee-vuh or key-vuh Keva From the Irish word 'caomh' which can variously mean 'gentle, beautiful or graceful'

They are lovely names but I wouldn't have a clue how to say any of them !

thread hijack alert - what about Aleanbh, how would that be pronounced?

Thankyou

Still don't get how they get to be pronounced in that way?

Aoife is probably a much older name than Eva, I wouldn't trust Google on that one. People are always making up unfounded links between Irish names and English names that sound a bit similar.

Aoife was also the name of the evil stepmother in the Children of Lir iirc, although it's a beautiful name so that shouldn't put you off.

there's a list here

An aquaintance of mine has just given her newborn dd Aoife as a middle name so i thought i best check

Mrs F : Aleanbh is apparently a Gaelic form of Alannah - 'a leanbh' means 'O child

the doctors reception calls out "coal-ham-he" for caoimhe. it still makes me giggle!

i read an autobiography a while back where the lady called one of her DCs saoirse which i had terrible trouble tryin to work out how it is pronounced and then i watched a programme with said lady i it and she said the name as seer-sha beautiful name but i would never be able to use it as my family have trouble spelling DDs name (sian) she gets all kinds like sharn and sain etc
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Aleanbh - that's a weird one. It's normally spelt (and pronounced) Alanna, which you may be familiar with.

Aleanbh is like a re-Irishing of an anglicised version of a Irish phrase (a leanbh - child [vocative]).

a leanbh would be pronounced any of A LYANIV, A LANOO, A LANA.

as a phrase (pronounced Alanna) of endearment for children (or even grown ups by their elders) it passed into general English usage, even in non-Irish speaking communities. It then began to be used as a name.

So my guess is that a baby with the name Aleanbh would pronounce it Alanna but I would pronounce that combination of letters as ALYANIV just from how its written iyswim.