About the name Etaoin

Tourist1

Hello,

I'm going to visit Ireland in a couple of weeks, where I will see many people whom I met online. Among those people, there is a person named Etaoin, and the thing is: I'm not sure how this name is pronounced or whether it is exclusively a female name or not. I did some searches online but couldn't confirm my findings.

I would be very thankful if you can help me; how is the name Etaoin pronounced? Is it exclusively a female name?

Many thanks!

Jesus Wept

Etaoin Shrdlu

Nephew

Hate to piss on your parade, but I think Etaoin mislead you about their gender so I hope you like the back door.

Etaoin is pronounced Ethan

Karoma

Did they tell you they'd meet you outside Christ Church, by any chance?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

could be Rozie?

Irish Wolf

Etaoin - (AY-deen) from Old Irish et "jealousy". Legendary heroine surpassed all other women in beauty and gentleness.

http://southernirish.com/node/230

Hmmm...

Alanthroneus

no etaoin is a girls name knew one a few years back. its pronounced eh-tayne afaik

Wertz

Is not the bastardised anglicisation of Eithne?

Time Magazine

It's pronounced "Et-tane", but with less emphasis on the emphasis on the "t" sound than is suggested there. It is a girl's name.

Gran Hermano

OP, it's Irish/Gaelic for hermaphrodite or trans-sexual.

copacetic

Nephew wrote:

Hate to piss on your parade, but I think Etaoin mislead you about their gender so I hope you like the back door.

Etaoin is pronounced Ethan

don't tell etaine doyle formerly head of comreg, she won't be at all happy.

It's a really well known girls name as far as I am concerned, it's just the OPs spelling that is off.

It's definitely Irish though, not an anglicised version.

InFront

I know someone with that name, was told to say it like "Hetchin". I'm pretty sure it's the same spelling.

On a related note, you know the weirdest name in the irish language? Tadhg.

It doesnt even resemble the sound, it's like spelling the word vase "kttz" . No offence anyone with that name:)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it makes sense in the Irish language

damn furrners

copacetic

InFront wrote:

I know someone with that name, was told to say it like "Hetchin". I'm pretty sure it's the same spelling.

On a related note, you know the weirdest name in the irish language? Tadhg.

It doesnt even resemble the sound, it's like spelling the word vase "kttz" . No offence anyone with that name:)

They told you wrong, it's pretty much pronounced as it is spelt, this person must not like their name and wants it to sound different or something.

tadhg is perfectly normal to me at least!

WindSock

I've never seen a name spelt like that before. I'm sure the person who owns the name won't mind if you ask him/her how to pronounce it. My guess would be et-ay-on

Ruen

I know a girl with that name and its pronounced 'et-tane'.
The name Tadhg is spelled exactly exactly how it sounds, it's an irish name.

embee

Like "Elaine", except with a "t" instead of the "l".

randylonghorn

Etain Doyle

I know someone else by that name, but she spells it the Irish way: Étaín ... not a common name, but not unheard of.

The original was a figure from Irish mythology ... see here.

If on the other hand this person does in fact spell it Etaoin, they may be using an internet nick (see The_Rigger's post above) ... after which, who knows?

Irish Wolf

Irish Wolf wrote:

Etaoin - (AY-deen) from Old Irish et "jealousy". Legendary heroine surpassed all other women in beauty and gentleness.

http://southernirish.com/node/230

Hmmm...

Or they may be using the proper name... see my post ^^ there!

randylonghorn

Apologies, Irish Wolf, didn't see your post, and have never seen it spelled with the "o" before! All the better news for the OP though ...

nesf

InFront wrote:

On a related note, you know the weirdest name in the irish language? Tadhg.

Sadhbh tends to wreck people's heads more as names go.

embee

InFront wrote:

On a related note, you know the weirdest name in the irish language? Tadhg.

I'd have said that Gobnait was a strong contender for that title tbh. It sounds like a noise a pig would make.

JuJuYNWA

embee wrote:

I'd have said that Gobnait was a strong contender for that title tbh. It sounds like a noise a pig would make.

Depends what you were doing to the pig:D

WindSock

Foreigners also have a lot of trouble with Siobhan and Aoife. It's funny how it looks so normal to us but when you try to see it through their eyes it's like, hunh?

Slutmonkey57b

embee wrote:

I'd have said that Gobnait was a strong contender for that title tbh. It sounds like a noise a pig would make.

Quite a lot of Irish names sound or look like animal noises. There's a reason for that.

Terry

Closest I could find was listed here. http://www.namenerds.com/irish/irisham.html

b_beep

Tis indeed pronounced 'Aideen', is Old Irish but has been bastardised by the Irish themselves by a 'say as you see' attitude, leading to folks being called 'eh-táin' which isn't a name of any history or meaning, just ignorance......

phasers

that is the worst name I have ever heard
it's probably a bloke

nioate00

My name is Etaoin and it's pronounced "Aydeen". You might wonder how in god's name you can get "Aydeen" from Etaoin but Irish is a totally different language to English so therefore the same rules do not apply, including pronounciation.

In old Irish "Et" was pronounced "Ead" or "aid". "Aoin",even in modern Irish is pronounced "een", for example "Ceadaoin" (which means Wednesday) is pronounced "Cay-deen".

In saying that, not everyone pronounces it like that, some pronounce it "ay-tawn" or "ee-tain". Technically though the correct pronounciation is "Aydeen".

If you want to read more on it you could follow this wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn

Oh and btw: it's a female name!

Sherifu

Google search?

Nice name anyway.

Welcome to boards.

BKtje

Guess it depends on how the person themsevles pronounces it as i knew a girl who pronounced it

Like "Elaine", except with a "t" instead of the "l".

lucylu

It could be étain Girls name (Et-tane )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn

Dave!

Alanthroneus wrote: »

no etaoin is a girls name knew one a few years back. its pronounced eh-tayne afaik

+1.... My sister has a friend whose name is pronounced like that. Dunno bout the spelling, but I woulda thought they're the same

The_B_Man

Its actually pronounced "Rebecca".

Stabshauptmann

nioate00 wrote: »

My name is Etaoin and it's pronounced "Aydeen". You might wonder how in god's name you can get "Aydeen" from Etaoin but Irish is a totally different language to English so therefore the same rules do not apply, including pronounciation.

In old Irish "Et" was pronounced "Ead" or "aid". "Aoin",even in modern Irish is pronounced "een", for example "Ceadaoin" (which means Wednesday) is pronounced "Cay-deen".

In saying that, not everyone pronounces it like that, some pronounce it "ay-tawn" or "ee-tain". Technically though the correct pronounciation is "Aydeen".

If you want to read more on it you could follow this wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn

Oh and btw: it's a female name!

No, "technically" Etaoin is pronounced like "et een" to an English speaker [sic].

You are right that it is supposed to be pronounced "Aydeen", but its spelt wrong (not your fault how it appears on your birth cert but my brothers name is spelt wrong too but at least he tells people the correct spelling).

One way to get the correct pronunciation is to spell it Étaoin, or Étaín.
On the bright side at least you dont have the over anglicised Aideen.

ps anyone ever notice that "dear dree" is a common enough English name (Deirdre)

Agonist

One cool thing about Etaoin is that the letters in it are the most common letters in English in order

Frequencies of the letters in the English language
E 12.51%
T 9.25
A 8.04
O 7.60
I 7.26
N 7.09

I wonder if she plays a lot of hangman?

Pherekydes

Agonist wrote: »

One cool thing about Etaoin is that the letters in it are the most common letters in English in order

Frequencies of the letters in the English language
E 12.51%
T 9.25
A 8.04
O 7.60
I 7.26
N 7.09

I wonder if she plays a lot of hangman?

Shag you, Agonist! I was just about to post this very thing. :mad:

Codewords, FTW. :pac:

Phantasm

I see you've got your answer so I can't really input. Other than to ask you why you couldn't just have asked your friend with that name? It wouldn't be rude or anything

mookishboy

InFront wrote: »

I know someone with that name, was told to say it like "Hetchin". I'm pretty sure it's the same spelling.

On a related note, you know the weirdest name in the irish language? Tadhg.

It doesnt even resemble the sound, it's like spelling the word vase "kttz" . No offence anyone with that name:)

Have seen this name before mis pronounced as Etchenne
ÉTIENNE Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ay-TYEN
French form of stephen

what i dont get is someone calling themselves emer but spelling it "eamhair"
surely that'd be pronounced ah-wer...?

me2gud4u

well that name is so commonly mispronounced,really grind my gears. Some ppl spell it one way but pronounce it the complete opposite. I would pretty much put money on it that it is said

phonetically
ay-thaahhin (said quickly)

echter

InFront wrote: »

On a related note, you know the weirdest name in the irish language? Tadhg.

It doesnt even resemble the sound, it's like spelling the word vase "kttz" . No offence anyone with that name:)

eh.. you pronounce Tadhg like t-eye-g! what way do you pronounce the name Tadhg?

Stench Blossoms

Karoma wrote: »

Did they tell you they'd meet you outside Christ Church, by any chance?

oh god how I laughed.

truecrippler

Eatin'. That does me.

echosound

The_B_Man wrote: »

Its actually pronounced "Rebecca".

kudos for making me snot myself with suprize-laff.

wyk

The-Rigger wrote: »

Etaoin Shrdlu

Those are also the most used letters in the English language.

E T A O I N S

WYK