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Thread poster: Inga Petkelyte
Inga Petkelyte
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Sep 29, 2010

Hello to all,

I wonder - how do you spell the name "Emily" in your language ? Do you pronounce it very differently from spelling ?


 
milezs
milezs
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Emīlija in Latvian Sep 30, 2010

In Latvian, most often it would be adapted to sound like a traditional Latvian name and thus it would written "Emīlija" (pronounced E-mee-li-ya, stress on the first syllable).

 
Monika Rozwarzewska
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Emilia in Polish Oct 1, 2010

...with a stress on the second syllable.

 
Nicole Schnell
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Emilie - in German Oct 1, 2010

...with a stress on the second syllable.

 
Lingua 5B
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Emilija - Serbian Oct 1, 2010

That's typically our version of the French names ending with -ie, e.g. Valerija, Emilija, Eugenija ( turning into -ija suffix).

There are some exceptions, of course.

Other variations that could be present in Serbian are: Emili, Emilia and Ema.

/ 'Eh-mee-lee-ya /



[Edited at 2010-10-01 11:00 GMT]


 
adremco
adremco
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Emilie - Dutch Oct 1, 2010

But Emily is also used.

 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Spain
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Emilia - Spanish Oct 1, 2010

Cheers!

 
Cécile Sellier
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Georgia
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French Oct 1, 2010

Emilie in French

 
Emma Goldsmith
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Spain
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boy's name Oct 1, 2010

Tomás Cano Binder, CT wrote:

Emilia - Spanish


and Emiliano for the boy's name, which is unusual in Spanish, but I love it


 
José Henrique Lamensdorf
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Brazil
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In memoriam
Portuguese (BR) Oct 1, 2010

We write it "Emília", the first "I" being the strong one (unlike French). There are the masculine versions of it, "Emílio" and "Emiliano". "Emiliana" would be acceptable, but I've never heard of one.

"Emília" sounds like "é milha" (= "it's mile" - meaningless reference to a mile in length). "Emílio" sounds like "é milho" (= "it's corn", but I've never seen a word play using it).

Emília is a famous talking rag doll
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We write it "Emília", the first "I" being the strong one (unlike French). There are the masculine versions of it, "Emílio" and "Emiliano". "Emiliana" would be acceptable, but I've never heard of one.

"Emília" sounds like "é milha" (= "it's mile" - meaningless reference to a mile in length). "Emílio" sounds like "é milho" (= "it's corn", but I've never seen a word play using it).

Emília is a famous talking rag doll - http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emília - a leading character in the numerous and acclaimed books for children by the Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato - http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monteiro_Lobato - in his "The Yellow Woodpecker Ranch" series, much later turned into a TV series - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="picapau%20amarelo"&aq=f .
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Anna Hellgren Farren
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Emelie or Emily Oct 1, 2010

The most common variant in Swedish seems to be Emelie with the stress on the first syllable.

You also get the variants Emilia, with the stress on the second syllable, and Emily/Emilie with the stress on the first syllable.


 
Lyudmila Gorbunova (married Zanella)
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Italy
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Emilia in Russian Oct 1, 2010

with a stress on the second syllable. But if the name is an English one, it is pronounced Emili, with a stress on the first syllable.

 
blaskovl
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Emília in Slovak Oct 1, 2010

the stres is on 'i' with an accent and the pronunciation looks like this: /emi:lia/

 
Oana Popovici
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Italy
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Emilia - Romanian Oct 1, 2010

...and the corresponding male names: Emil or Emilian

 
Szilas Cseh
Szilas Cseh
Serbia
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Hungarian Oct 2, 2010

Emília

 
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