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Jedswims
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Posted on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 09:05 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

my daughter's name is spelled Meaghan
what is the correct phonetic pronunciation

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Lucy (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 09:10 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

It's Meggin. How do you pronouce it?

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BRNí (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 08:05 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Is it even an Irish name?

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Jedswims
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Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 08:50 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

we pulled it from a book of Irish girls names

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Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 02:12 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

I asked the question as it does not sound like an Irish name at all. Medial consonants tend to soften and drop out in Irish.

A number of sites suggest it is Welsh, this one for example:
http://www.medievalscotland.org/problem/names/megan.shtml

Name books are often dodgy. Some time ago, someone told me with complete beleif that Cormac was the Irish form of Charles.

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Llorcan
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Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 03:04 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Megan is a Welsh name. I think it was the name of the daughter of Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
A lot of American name book authors have unilaterally decided that it is an Irish name based on the fact than it sounds like Regan and other Irish names ending in -gan. The -gh- is a further attempt to make it look more Irishy.
It is a pet form of Margaret (Meg) similarly Bethan is a form of Elizabeth (Beth). It may not be cringeworthy but it certainly is an Americanism.
The Irish form would probably be Peigín (Pegeen). (On the positive side it is still a name of Celtic origin.)

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Dennis
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Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 07:44 pm:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Nach aisteach an rud é go gcuireann daoine ainmneacha ar a gcuid clainne nach raibh in úsáid ag a muintir riamh, gan na hainmneacha sin a thuiscint a chor ar bith? Chuir mé stuaic ar fhear a bhí ag obair san oifig chéanna liomsa nuair a mhínigh mé ciall an ainm Cameron, a bhí seisean agus a bhean díreach tar éis baisteach ar a n-iníon nua. Cúig bliana déag ó shin a tharla sé seo. Is dócha go bfhuil an t-ainm sin as faisean faoin am seo.

Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.

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Riona
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Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 - 03:12 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

It is a nice name and as said above it is Celtic even if not Irish.

Beir bua agus beannacht

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Pangur_dubh
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Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 06:47 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Cameron = Cam Shrón

Agus cad faoi Campbell? Cam Béul?

Fuaimníonn Megan díreach mar mheigealleach caoire nó ghabhair im thuairimse. Is fuaim ghránna í i mo chluasa. Ach de gustibus non est disputandum.

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Aonghus
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Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 08:35 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

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Agus cad faoi Campbell? Cam Béul?



Sea. Clann Diarmaid an droch chlú!

http://www.google.ie/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2 006-39,GGLJ:en-GB&q=cam+beul



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