ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1890 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1890 ************************************ From: "Sara L Friedemann" 21 Dec 1999 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You wanted to know how the French feminine names , , , and would have been pronounced in the 15th century. Here is a brief letter with the information we have found. and would have been pronounced similarly, \ah-VEES-@\, where the \@\ represents the initial vowel sound in the word . , being the Latin form of the name, would not have been used in everyday speech. Rather, a person whose name was recorded in a document as would have been known as or in everyday life. was pronounced \ahl-l@-MA~HN-d@\. The tilde indicates nasalization of the previous vowel. A copy of the previous letter we sent you is available on-line: Client 1836: http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?1836+0 We hope that this letter has been useful to you, and that you will not hesitate to write again if any part was unclear or if you have further questions. Research and commentary on this letter was provided by Giles Leabrook, Arval Benicoeur, Blaise de Cormeilles, Adelaide de Beaumont, Talan Gwynek, and Amant le Marinier. For the Academy, ~Aryanhwy merch Catmael