Eluned 🔥

No worries, I honestly didn't know that. :)

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm really sorry if that's how it came across, I really don't want to be a nuisance. I think there is confusion regionally; in certain parts of Wales, "u" is a normally close front rounded vowel, which can produce a sound closer to oo than i/ee.

I am Welsh born and have a friend of this name. Anyway I did listen to the recording you're referring to. He has a very heavy lilting accent and as you say, it does make interpreting emphasis muddy. My primary exposure to Welsh has been Northern. I have no clue who would say "EL-oo-net" and to my knowledge this is not valid, the u is not meant to be said as 'oo', that's a "w" sound. Anyway maybe we agree to disagree on this one :)

I live on the Welsh border. Emphasis is difficult in Welsh because of the changing pitch in the accent. There's a recorded pronunciation on the BBC website under the Living In Wales section, for some reason comments with links aren't working but hopefully you can find it.

I live on the Welsh border. You can hear it pronounced here for yourself:
bbc.co.uk/wales/livinginwal...

I don't get why "el-LOOND" is listed as a pronunciation. Of the Welsh people I've met it's either el-EE-ned or el-IH-ned depending on if they're from the South or North.

It's the penultimate syllable that is emphasized in Welsh... it should be el-EE-ned or el-IH-ned

Lovely! Probably the most striking and interesting of the El- cohort.

I feel like this was a name of one of the priestesses in The Mists of Avalon, but I think her name was "Eiluned."

Too close to lunatic

Love this name!

In Wales it's pronounced kind of like EL-oo-net or EL-ih-net. Similar to Russian, a D at the end of a word normally devoices to a T sound. It is very pretty.

This is a very interesting and pretty name.

I've never even heard of this name before! So beautiful and magical-sounding.