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[Opinions] Question: how do you pronounce Liat?

by rooster

2/8/2011, 2:01 PM

I just came across this name while reading this article:
http://www.babynames.com/valentines_names.php

I love the meaning but am unsure on how to pronounce it.

So Liat - is it LEE-at, LIE-at, LEE-art, LIE-art or other?

Thanks in advance :)

#pronunciation

This message was edited 2/8/2011, 2:04 PM

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- Ismene (Madyson)

2/12/2011, 4:05 AM

I say it like "lee-OT" or "lee-AHT" or "lee-AWT" but I really have no idea whether that is correct

- meena

2/9/2011, 2:05 PM

LEE-at...

But if it was a masculine name, I'd say LIE-at

- nomenphile

2/9/2011, 1:48 AM

My instinct would be LEE-aht (rhymes with Fiat) but I don't know if that is correct.

- Catzor (brilliantblue) +1

2/8/2011, 7:10 PM

I speak a good bit of Hebrew and have read the language since I was little. The name is pronounced lee-AHT.

- rooster

2/9/2011, 3:13 PM

Ah yes, that was one of my thoughts, with my accent (i'm from New Zealand) lee-aht sound the same as lee-art.

Thanks heaps!

- Marie (Tawnee)

2/8/2011, 6:08 PM

Wow. I honestly have no idea, but I think I'd most likely to pronounce it lee-AT, with the stress on the second syllable.

- Dracotorix

2/8/2011, 5:35 PM

I say lee-AHt (where the "T" is barely audible).

- Hola123

2/8/2011, 2:50 PM

Just looking at it, I would pronounce it, LIE-ut.

- Andromache (Hannah Ruth)

2/8/2011, 2:33 PM

I'd say "LEE-at".

- Valkyrie (ICEyun)

2/8/2011, 2:20 PM

This one's a new one for me. Personally, I would say it as LEE-at.

- Sofia

2/8/2011, 2:09 PM

From what I know of Hebrew phonetics I'd say LEE-at.

- Maggie (writersblock242)

2/8/2011, 2:06 PM

I say LEE-at and so does every production of South Pacific I've ever seen.

- Ranchie

2/8/2011, 2:05 PM

I've never seen it before but just looking at it I would say Lie-at. Rhyming it with Wyatt.

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