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Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
This post is in memory of Bot #001 who sadly blew away in the wind.
serious question here
How is Cillian pronounced?
According to le Google, it’s pronounced ‘kil-ee-an’, so a ‘hard c’. I’ve always said ‘sill-ee-an’, but I also have never heard it said aloud so --shrug–
/ˈkɪliən/ , since this is his wiki page and his people would have final say I think hard k
why didn’t I think to look it up before 🙄
I big phat linguistics and etymology nerd, so i love looking that stuff up. It’s Irish so yeah, hard ‘K’ sound.
Get lost down the rabbithole of etymonline. I just wish there were more resources for languages that aren’t daughter-languages of P.I.E. But the answer to that honestly is to just learn a language like Finnish and read the sources for Proto-Uralic. Sigh, so much to learn!!
Like Cillian Murphy?
You’ve already worked it out but for anyone interested, it’s an old Gaeilge name likely coming from the Garilge word for church, Cill (meaning hard k) and the diminutive suffix - ín, so it means ‘lil church’
That’s cool. Thanks. :)
Sil (like silk)-ee-en? That’s how I’d say it, but I don’t know what it is so I’m probably wrong
I’ve known it as “Kil-lian” so the C is that hard K sound.