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Aina- just guessing.... (ain like "aim" uh)?
Aine- just guessing... m(ain ee) or (ain)?
Aisha- this one I'm pretty sure about bc I like this name.... (I ee sha)

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eye-na
eye-neh (men, pet...)
eye-sha

I say, "How do you pronounce that in English?"

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- chazda

Aina Anyah
Aine Anyeh
Aisha Ah-ee-sha

Aina: prn I-Nah
Aine: prn Ay-ne
Aisha: prn Aye-shah

I am probably completely wrong, but

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Aina: ay nah
Aine: ayn
Aisha: i e shuh

Aina - sorry, don't know
Aine - myu friend's mn & she pronounces it like Enya or ahn-ya.
Aisha - There was a song from the early 90s (I think) by Another Bad Creation called Aisha and it was pronounced ie-ee-sha.

I don't know the "proper" pronounciations, but if you are going on pronounciations based on looks I can suggest some. THe only one i know how to pronounce is Aisha, because it is my friend's sister's name, and she says it I-shuh. I think i-EE-sha is spelt Ayesha. Based on this I would pronounce the others by looking:
Aina-I-nuh or AY-nuh
Aine-I-knee or AY-knee
Sorry I don't know the real ones!

I don't know about Aine or Aisha, but Aina is a form of Anna usual here -it was originally from the Balearic Islands (I don't know how do you call them, the biggest island is Majorca) but now it's known everywhere where Catalan is spoken-
and it's pronunced: EYE-nah.

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I think it's a cute name, and a good alternative to Anna, that it's overused here (you call "ANNA!" in my high school and ten girls look at you), but here we are so boring with names that I couldn't tell you for sure if Aina is popular or not.
I hope that make sense, my English is pretty bad, I know.

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Eva

I believe Áine is AN-ya (or AHN-ya). 'Aisha can be AY-sha or, more correctly I believe, ie-EE-sha.

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'Course, somebody else with more knowledge might blow my pronunciations out of the water. ;-)

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Miranda

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EDIT: Accented Áine

This message was edited 10/19/2004, 10:16 AM