What do you think of Aoise?

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Just come across Aoise, never seen it before. Apparently it is pronounced "ee-sha". Does anyone know is this actually an irish name? Can't seem to find it on the irish name websites.

OP I think it is a beautiful name and I have met one before with the name (was told it was Swahilii but no comment on it being changed in spelling - this was about 4 years ago)

and to the poster about why naming your child something no one can pronounce. well they learn and then I have done my bit towards educating them..
on a serious note I would hope everyone names their child because they like thename or its meaning. Elsewise we could just stick with numbers 123

If I saw it I would assume it was Irish, not made up.

Hate the ignorance re: Irish names. Irish is a different language (doh!)

Aoiseliadin -- I don't think Taoiseach has that etymology, and I also don't think there was ever any such person as a 'wise one' of a village. The resemblance to 'aois' is coincidental.
Aois (meaning age) is a feminine noun, 2nd declension, whereas taoiseach is a masculine noun, 1st declension.

'Taoiseach'
From Old Irish toísech (?leader?)
Ogham tovisaci
Proto-Celtic towissāko- ?leader?
Welsh tywysog ?prince?

either Proto-Indo-European *wedh- ?lead? or weid- ?know, see?. More likely 'wedh-'

The T is inseparable from the rest of the word.

'aois'
from old Irish áes, which has a few meanings:
Age
Era/stage or period/lifetime
People/group (like the áes dána)

My daughter is called Aoise, i found the name in a very old church headstone in the west of ireland, it was a few hundread years old (i know very morbid but great way to find very old names) i loved the name and was expecting my daughter at the time. I am a fluent irish speaker and to me the name translates as 'Wise' and pending on where you live its prounounced differently like many irish names, so its 'A-sha' in west kerry and 'EE-sha' in Dublin. I pronounce it EE-sha. Best of Luck !!!

Dinneen's dictionary has: "físidhe" = a visionary, a seer. "fisidhe" = a man of knowledge, a counsellor I guess if it's a name used by native speakers the f must have got lost (those of you who don't know Irish, lost f is a thing, honestly). The ao is not required but does make the written name look rounder otherwise it would be "Íse". Or "Fhíse".

Pretty sound and strong meaning.
Go for it OP.

This is a ZOMBIE thread. OP's child will be 10 by now.

Aoise (ee-sha) is short for Labhaoise (La-vee-sha) meaning warrior maiden in old Irish.