How to pronounce cu faoil (celtic).

[Mimung]

The celtic name cu faoil is the same as Irish wolfhound. How does cu faoil pronounce? Is "cu" pronounced "ku" or "su"? And how about the "faoil"? Me and my wife got two irish wolfhounds (and four whippets). One almost 8 months old and the other one is two months old. The first is named Ylva, which is the feminin form of Ulf (= ulv (=wolf)). The small one is named Freja (from the nordic mythologi). Thanx in advance! /Mimung

 

[Landy_Dom]

My dad grew up speaking Irish - I'll try to remember to ask him and post it here

Dom.

 

[Mimung]

Thanks for helping. Looking forward hearing from you. Cheers. /Mimung

 

[widu13]

Would it be "queue fail"?

 

[Landy_Dom]

Just talked to my dad...

cu is hound - pronounced koo

'faol' is wolf - pronounced fayel

hope this helps!

Dom.

 

[Matt Weir]

Koo foyl is what sprang to my mind but I know nowt

 

[Jodie]

I thought koo foil too but argued myself towards koo fa-oil but I also have no idea -
koo fayel it is.

Does anyone know if there's an accepted pronunciation of Cinchona? It seems that
it might be sing-kona but equally it could be sin / thin / kin / chin and ch / ch (as in
Scottish loch) / k (and then of course is it owna or onna )

 

[gregorach]

Well, I know c is always a hard sound, like k rather than like s. The precise sound of vowels can be very tricky - Gaelic speakers have accents too. Scots Gaelic is worse, because it was never properly standardised anyway. A lot of the time, even native speakers can't agree on how things are supposed to be pronounced.

I suspect Cinchona should be pronounced kin-chona, with the ch like loch - but whether the vowels are short or long I couldn't say. Could be kine-chonay...

 

[Mimung]

Thank you all! You´ve been a great help. /Mimung

 

[Floyd Soul]

Cu Faoil would be pronounced Koo Fweel

but if the spelling is Cu Faol then it is pronounced Koo Fail.

Atlast, my 12 years of Irish come in useful!

 

[Jodie]

Fweel - I did not see that one coming

 

[Mimung]

@ Floyd Soul

Eh.. How to pronounce "fweel"? In our book about irish wolfhound it only says cu faoil. /Mimung