Caoimhin

Femelade · 14-05-2008 01:15PM #1

How do you pronounce this name?
Is it the irish for Kevin?

RedXIV · 14-05-2008 01:17PM

Kwee-veen

tis my dad's name

Femelade · 14-05-2008 01:18PM

no offence, but does it sound a bit girlie for a boy? Do people miss-pronounce it alot?

RedXIV · 14-05-2008 01:20PM

well my dad is built like a brick s**thouse so i'd say he had no problems. Never had anyone mispronounce it actually..... maybe coz irish was taught better then?

Lockstep · 14-05-2008 01:22PM

Yeah, it's Kevin.

Kweeveen.

My sister is Caoimhe (Kweeva) which is the feminine form of it. English doesn;t have one methinks.

Insect Overlord · 14-05-2008 01:24PM

RedXIV wrote: »

Kwee-veen

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Yeah, it's Kevin.

Kweeveen.

+1
A friend of mine in college goes by the Irish version of Kevin too.

super_furry · 14-05-2008 01:37PM

As if Kevin wasn't already a boring enough name, someone had to go and make it Irish.

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 01:44PM

I sometimes call my brother Kweev.

Sherifu · 14-05-2008 01:50PM

Femmy wrote: »

How do you pronounce this name?
Is it the irish for Kevin?

The first thing to do is hawk a greener.

RedXIV · 14-05-2008 01:52PM

Sherifu wrote: »

The first thing to do is hawk a greener.

ah you speak TRADITIONAL irish i see

chopperbyrne · 14-05-2008 01:57PM

Kwee-veen?

I would have always said Kee-veen.

Pherekydes · 14-05-2008 02:24PM

super_furry wrote: »

As if Kevin wasn't already a boring enough name, someone had to go and make it Irish.

Kevin is a bastardisation of Caoimhin rather than Caoimhin being a transalation of Kevin. The Irish language is a lot older than English.

super_furry · 14-05-2008 02:29PM

Slow coach wrote: »

Kevin is a bastardisation of Caoimhin rather than Caoimhin being a transalation of Kevin. The Irish language is a lot older than English.

Meh. It's still a terrible name.

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 02:30PM

Slow coach wrote: »

Kevin is a bastardisation of Caoimhin rather than Caoimhin being a transalation of Kevin. The Irish language is a lot older than English.

Maybe not.

Look at the name John.

It has equivalents in many languages.

Ian
Jan
Johann
Iain
Ivan
Juan
Jon
Eoin

(not Seán)

One didn't necessarily come before the other.

Sherifu · 14-05-2008 02:30PM

RedXIV wrote: »

ah you speak TRADITIONAL irish i see

The proper way.

Pherekydes · 14-05-2008 02:32PM

DesF wrote: »

Maybe not.

Look at the name John.

What has this got to do with Kevin/Caoimhin?

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 02:34PM

Slow coach wrote: »

What has this got to do with Kevin/Caoimhin?

Can you prove that Kevin is a bastardisation of the Irish?

It could just as easily have been borrowed into Gaelic from English at some stage, or from another Germanic/Latin language at an earlier stage.

Not all English words with close-sounding Irish equivalents are robbed from irish you know.

chopperbyrne · 14-05-2008 02:36PM

DesF wrote: »

Can you prove that Kevin is a bastardisation of the Irish?

It could just as easily have been borrowed into Gaelic from English at some stage, or from another Germanic/Latin language at an earlier stage.

Not all English words with close-sounding Irish equivalents are robbed from irish you know.

Before someone who actually means it says it; typical West Brit!

lostexpectation · 14-05-2008 03:24PM

what caoimhin is feminine kevin?, my sister husband is called kevin and they named their daughter caoimhe ha, never knew she was named after himself.

chopperbyrne · 14-05-2008 03:25PM

lostexpectation wrote: »

what caoimhin is feminine kevin?, my sister husband is called kevin and they named their daughter caoimhin ha, never knew she was named after himself.

No, no, no!

Caoimhe is the female name.

Caoimhín is the male.

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 03:28PM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

No, no, no!

Caoimhe is the female name.

Caoimhín is the male.

I have a cousin called Caoimhe, she's most definitely a girl.

I think it's a lovely name.

lostexpectation · 14-05-2008 03:28PM

well i mean its like paul and paula, i didn't know that

chopperbyrne · 14-05-2008 03:29PM

It is a lovely name, for a girl.

Caoimhín is also a grand name, for a boy.

However, Caoimhín for a girl is all wrong.

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 03:30PM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

It is a lovely name, for a girl.

Caoimhín is also a grand name, for a boy.

However, Caoimhín for a girl is all wrong.

true

kevmy · 14-05-2008 03:31PM

Jeez people are fairly slow on this thread today must be the heat ... or is it just the level of AH poster?

Anyway as a Kevin I can safely say I have never been mistaken for a lady and that the Irish for my name is indeed Caoimhín (or Caoimhighín depending on spelling) and that it is indeed pronounced Kwee-veen (if you can throw in a bit of blás all the better)

There is a feminine version of the name Caoimhe (pronounced Kwee-va) in Irish and (the extremely unpopular) Kevina as Bearla.

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 03:33PM

kevmy wrote: »

Kevina

Well, I wonder why that's unpopular.

It rhymes with minge ffs.

lostexpectation · 14-05-2008 03:34PM

ah like kwee-veen o kwae-lann

_blank_ · 14-05-2008 03:36PM

lostexpectation wrote: »

ah like kwee-veen o kwae-lann

Kway-lan is a different name, I think.

robinph · 14-05-2008 05:04PM

Caoimhín
Caoimhe
Caoimhighín

I'm just seeing lots of C's and O's then I have to give up. I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between any of the names and I'd have to resort to "Oi, you" and similar on encountering people with such names.

kevmy · 15-05-2008 10:53AM

DesF wrote: »

Kway-lan is a different name, I think.

Poster was referring to Caoimhghín O'Caoláin SF TD
http://www.sinnfeinonline.com/representatives/380

robinph wrote: »

Caoimhín
Caoimhe
Caoimhighín

I'm just seeing lots of C's and O's then I have to give up. I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between any of the names and I'd have to resort to "Oi, you" and similar on encountering people with such names.

Ok I'll go slow

Caoimhín and Caoimhighín and Caoimhghín are all the same name (Kevin in Irish). They are all pronounced the same way (Kwee-Veen) but spelt differently.

Caoimhe is the female version of the above name. As far as I've seen it's the only spelling used. It's pronounced Kwee-Va.

Quite simple really

Malice · 15-05-2008 11:00AM

Maybe it's just a west of Ireland thing but I've never met any natives who've had trouble with Caoimhín. Now names like Odharnait, Aobhinn and Conchubhair I would expect trouble with

. Or, more likely, something like Przemyslaw...

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