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Boy / irish name

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    #62
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,597 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    unjedilike wrote: »
    Cuan but with fadas on the vowels

    God no.

    Its just cuan.

    Not coooo... Awwwnnn.


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    #63
    Bikerguy
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    Now finally....

    3:33am with weight of 4.440grams


    Welcome to the world my boy Sean

    Edit: Seán


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    #64
    Peregrinus
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    Congratulations!

    (PS: I think you mean "Seán". "Sean", without the fada, just means "old".)


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    #65
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,511 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    unjedilike wrote: »
    Cuan but with fadas on the vowels
    sydthebeat wrote: »
    God no.

    Its just cuan.

    Not coooo... Awwwnnn.
    Different words. Cuan means bay, harbour. Cúán is an Old Irish (i.e. the language spoken up to about AD 1000) word meaning small dog, whelp. In modern Irish you can't have two broad vowels beside one another, with fadas over both of them; the corresponding word is Cuán


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    #66
    rainbowtrout
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    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Different words. Cuan means bay, harbour. Cú/i] is an Old Irish (i.e. the language spoken up to about AD 1000) word meaning small dog, whelp. In modern Irish you can't have two broad vowels beside one another, with fadas over both of them; the corresponding word is Cu/i]

    Not in East Galway.

    http://stcuans.ie/


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    #67
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,511 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Not in East Galway.

    http://stcuans.ie/
    Cuan is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Cúan, which is different both from the Irish word cuan, a bay or harbour, and the Irish word cuán, a little dog.

    The OP wants an Irish name. Cuan is to Cúan as Teigue is to Tadhg.


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    #68
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Bikerguy wrote: »
    Now finally....

    3:33am with weight of 4.440grams


    Welcome to the world my boy Sean

    Edit: Seán
    Well done! Congratulations.
    Now for the middle name!!

    To thine own self be true



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    #69
    maxsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭maxsmum


    I knew a girl with a very popular Irish name who went to live in Canada and everyone pronounced her name phonetically to the extent that she gave up and started introducing herself as that...i.e. 'Summerlid' for your son. I'm not a fan of Irish names myself but I'd consider a million more before that one. And that's no offence intended just being honest.


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