pronunciation of "elan"

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[Asei Inoue]

How should elan be pronounced?
I usually call it [eɾaɴ]

[Kevin Buzzard]

I have always imagined that the name came from the (admittedly obscure) English word "elan", meaning energy, style and enthusiasm. Merriam-Webster says this

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[Edward van de Meent]

unfortunately you can't press buttons on screenshots :smiling_face_with_tear:

[Aaron Liu]

I do something like [ˈiːɫæn̠]

[Yaël Dillies]

Kevin Buzzard said:

the (admittedly obscure) English word "elan"

That's just a normal French word :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[Aaron Liu]

Edward van de Meent said:

unfortunately you can't press buttons on screenshots :smiling_face_with_tear:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elan

[Ruben Van de Velde]

Yaël Dillies said:

Kevin Buzzard said:

the (admittedly obscure) English word "elan"

That's just a normal French word :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

An (admittedly obscure) language :innocent:

[Filippo A. E. Nuccio]

The CNRTL suggests a prounounciation
https://www.cnrtl.fr/morphologie/elan

[Bulhwi Cha]

Gabriel Ebner said:

I think it's pronounced like the German "Elan".

[Aaron Liu]

I think I might switch to [eɾaɴ] because it sounds funny