How do you pronounce dalziel
How do you pronounce the last name Dalziel?
Why is Dalziel pronounced dee el?
Pronunciation. The unintuitive spelling of the name is due to it being an anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic Dail-gheal, meaning bright dale. The sound now spelled with a ⟨y⟩ or ⟨z⟩ is historically a lenited slender /ɡ/, which in Gaelic is pronounced [j] (like English ⟨y⟩).
What kind of name is Dalziel?
Last name: Dalziel
This famous Old Scottish name, is of locational origin from the old barony of Balziel in Lanarkshire. The placename itself combines “Da(i)l”, meaning tribal territory and “geal”, meaning bright or white. The name is pronounced as “Diyell”. Others call themselves Dal-yhell, Dal-zell and Dal-zeel.
What does the name Dalziel mean?
From the little field
In Scottish Baby Names the meaning of the name Dalziel is: From the little field.
Where does Dalziel and Pascoe take place?
Yorkshire
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How do you pronounce the name Dalzell?
Dee’el (Dee-el) 2 syllables Dee and el, like the letters D and L.
Where does the name Dalzell come from?
Scottish: habitational name from a place in the Clyde valley, recorded in 1200 in the forms Dalyell, Daliel and in 1352 as Daleel, apparently from Gaelic dail ‘field’ + g(h)eal ‘white’.
How do you pronounce Menzies?
listen) MING-iss. The current spelling arose when the similar-looking tailed variant of the letter ⟨z⟩ (i.e., ⟨𝔷⟩) was used as a substitute for the now obsolete letter ⟨ȝ⟩ (yogh) in the Scots language (Menȝies). However, outside Scotland it is often erroneously given the spelling-pronunciation /ˈmɛnziːz/ MEN-zeez.