Gnaeus

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How is this name pronounced?

[Sceptra_Tenens]

Good question. I originally wrote that both the G and N were pronounced, but I really have no sources on this. It could have been pronounced with that same nasalized sound that we find is words like magnus… but I don’t really think it did; that makes it quite difficult to pronounce, and feels like it should trigger elision.

Unless someone insists otherwise, I recommend pronouncing both as hard.

[Dominus]

See I would just do it a ‘Gn’ in ‘Gnocchi’ (N-y-ork-ie). Its a nasal sound. So for me it would sound like:
(N-y-ie-oos)

But thats only because saying it as (G-Nie-oos) is quite hard.

[Sceptra_Tenens]

@Dominus

See I would just do it a ‘Gn’ in ‘Gnocchi’ (N-y-ork-ie). Its a nasal sound. So for me it would sound like:
(N-y-ie-oos)

But thats only because saying it as (G-Nie-oos) is quite hard.

Hm, interesting. Is English your first language? Because for me, using a hard G is easier by far.

[Dominus]

@Sceptra Tenens

@Dominus

See I would just do it a ‘Gn’ in ‘Gnocchi’ (N-y-ork-ie). Its a nasal sound. So for me it would sound like:
(N-y-ie-oos)

But thats only because saying it as (G-Nie-oos) is quite hard.

Hm, interesting. Is English your first language? Because for me, using a hard G is easier by far.

Yer, English is my first language, but I have had the luck to have been born into an Italian family.